Future

[RFREITAS]

Thank you both! You are always very kind and wise

I want to have a normal life, even with dry eyes or something else. I agree that dry eyes should not stop us from anything... and I would hate not to have chilren and in 5 years a cure appear ( Liz I have hope too )

I am not taking any medication now because I feel more strong and calm. However life will continue to put us new challenges and this will cause anxiety turns to show. My biggest fear is if the eyes will get worse in one year... 5 years... I know is stupid but when you have something that you can not control is dificult not want to predict the future.

I was hopping someone with kids to reveal their experience! But your responses we more than that! So thank you both for your incentive and experience.
Special for always see the bright side of life

Have a nice day!

[lizlou29]

I believe I will have children in the future. I know it will be a bit more difficult for me than my friends who don't have eye issues but I'd hate to think that I decided not to have children because of my condition then in 10 years time my eyes are better (I still have hope).

Mindfulness meditation has helped me to stop stressing over the future. It took a while though and I still do worry a bit when I've got something important coming up as my eyes are so unpredictable from one day to the next. It's also helped in my everyday life as my mind was wandering off a lot when I was trying to work. I'm more organised now!

[DCRdryeye]

Hi Rfreitas - dry eyes should never stop anyone doing what they want to do especially family and kids. Avoiding anxiety in the future is not possible, life always throws us curved balls and stress/anxiety are our bodies way of making us aware of danger. It's natural but damaging when it doesn't subside and becomes 'chronic'. Is there something about the future you're particularly worried about? If you can nail it down to something then you can work on decreasing any anticipatory fears.

Daily meditation helps train the muscles and nervous system to relax and enables to help us cope with stressful situations better. Perhaps you could try it out? .... but anxiety will occur with or without dry eyes. I agree that dry eyes certainly increases the frequency of stress and anxiety but it's up to us to develop coping mechanisms to deal with it better.

[RFREITAS]

Dear all,

What can you advise for those who have dry eyes and want to have a family and children! Is that possible?
Where you put your focus to not get anxiey about the future!

Whising all the best!
RFreitas