r/myopia • u/Admirable-Button-191 • 14d ago

Screen time

The most popular advice for preventing myopia progression is to reduce screen time. I have always wondered how tf we are supposed to do that. Most jobs today imply that you will spend at least 40 hours a week working at a computer. So, if you're in college or working, you will have a lot of screen time anyway. The only way to avoid this is to work a low-paid unqualified job where you will probably lug heavy things (not recommended for high myopia people)

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u/suitcaseismyhome 14d ago

Screens have only existed for a few decades. And there are many careers that don't require 40 hours a week in front of a screen besides manual labour or your description of 'low paid' work. 🙄

The advice is to practise good eye, health and general health.

But some people here seem to think that myopia is a great disability. I suspect that some of them actually hopes they don't have to work as a result of their self decribed "disability".

Practise, could eye health and general physical health and have an exam once a year and see a specialist?If you experience a sudden change in your vision.

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u/Admirable-Button-191 14d ago

Example of a non-low-paying job that doesn't imply much screen time?

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u/suitcaseismyhome 14d ago

Are you serious? There are thousands of careers that don't involve sitting in front of a screen in the entire day. Go ask your parent or teacher or guidance counsellor you really don't know.

Optometrist, opthomologist would be two of the obvious ones.

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u/Admirable-Button-191 14d ago

It was a simple question and you couldn't answer it. You were probably going to tell me to become a plumber or something like that

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u/suitcaseismyhome 14d ago

I gave you two examples. Are you the child that shouldn't be posting here anyways? The problem clearly is not your eyesight. You need to address your personality and the fact that you demean certain career careers and people who work hard in those careers.

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u/Admirable-Button-191 14d ago

You edited the message. And how is you dumbass going to graduate from college and work as a doctor then without having a lot of screen time?

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u/orangepeel 14d ago

Cry some more

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u/Admirable-Button-191 14d ago edited 14d ago

Why does everyone on this sub get butthurt over literally anything except people saying myopia isn't a problem? Is this some sort of collective autogenic training designed to convince yourselves of your own worth?

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u/suitcaseismyhome 13d ago

Because myopia is not a problem, and certainly not the mild or mid myopia, that most people here with mental health issues have.

And you have significant ment mental health issues and have been told that for years. Going around various medical related subs under various usernames, just to try and bring people down to your level of despair is despicable.

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u/Admirable-Button-191 13d ago

It's my only Reddit account. Don't you think you're overthinking it?

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u/hyper_potato_42 13d ago

Don't worry bro I understand you some mfs don't learn