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A classic eye examination examines the conscious ability to identify letters — represented here by a small white tube of attention. However, a larger amount of conscious peripheral awareness must be used to help accurately aim the eyes — represented by a cone of blue. The surrounding green represents subconscious awareness. Patients with PTSD often have disrupted peripheral processing, which is often not addressed.
encompass changes over the past 150 years.
When I was deciding on a career path, a wise man asked me two questions: “What interests you?” and “What do you have fun doing?” My answers were, “Blindness and math puzzles”. After considering those unrelated answers, his response was, “Why don’t you consider being an eye doctor?” Before following through with his advice, I spent two years observing many types of ophthalmologists and optometrists, deciding on which path would be the most fun to spend the next few decades. I realized that ophthalmologists repaired damaged eyeballs, and restored eyesight, and optometrists solved math puzzles allowing healthy eyeballs to process signals more efficiently. Both professions helped the patient, but one did it through structural repair and the other