Mental stress as consequence and cause of vision loss: the dawn of psychosomatic ophthalmology for preventive and personalized medicine

It is concluded that stress is both consequence and cause of vision loss, and stress reduction and relaxation techniques (e.g., meditation, autogenic training, stress management training, and psychotherapy to learn to cope) should be recommended not only as complementary to traditional treatments of sight loss but possibly as preventive means to reduce progression of vision Loss.