Brain Chemistry Of Anxiety And How It May Relate To Floaters
Chemicals in the brain such as dopamine and serotonin can become out of balance when you are dealing with
anxiety that may be caused by seeing floaters all the time. This may possibly interfere with the brain's ability to
learn to "ignore" eye floaters over time.
The frustration of seeing dark spots and lines endlessly drifting near your eyes is due to
the gel called vitreous ripping away from the retina. If we are to try to figure out why eye floaters and flashes
occur, it helps to know that the jelly material called vitreous in our eyes becomes smaller, shrinks, and changes
from gel like to watery with time.
Seeing a lot of dark, branched lines that look like strings in front of your eyes can happen in the aftermath of
vitreous gel collapse. Worm like parasites with a tail on them can seem to float right by your eyes as the vitreous
gel moves back and forth. Floaters that appear like gray blobs can move up quickly in your vision and then drift
back down slowly like a tadpole flicking its tail.
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