If you have glaucoma, you may be experiencing emotional challenges in addition to the impact of glaucoma on your vision. Emotions are a normal, healthy part of the human experience.
Living with a chronic condition like glaucoma can cause you to feel a variety of emotions, including grief and loss. This may be due to an actual loss, such as loss of vision, or potential loss, such as a loss of what you thought your life was going to be like.
Or, if you're anticipating losing your vision, you may be experiencing some of those emotions leading up to that loss. If you're going through multiple losses at the same time, that can become what is called complicated grief. So, if you've lost a loved one right around the time that you received a glaucoma diagnosis, you might have different emotions related with both losses that might feel conflicting at times.
Depression, fear, worry, stress, and anxiety are also common emotions when dealing with glaucoma. But, like everyone else, you will experience happy emotions as well. Just because you are living with glaucoma doesn't mean that you can't also experience hope, joy, contentment, and gratitude.
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