steps to overcome the factor of sight loss
Low vision care and other vision rehabilitation interventions can be important steps in the rehabilitation process. Mehr noted that depression could be overcome if tasks could be accomplished that the individual had seen as too difficult to do. [ Ellerbrock even suggested that mastering tasks, such as navigating to the bathroom alone or reading a letter with an optical device would help to overcome depression. Low vision devices, therefore, become an integral part of the process of regaining self-esteem, overcoming feelings of hopelessness, and regaining emotional strength as compensatory
strategies are learned. An additional benefit of the low vision evaluation process, according to Dr. Faye, is the opportunity it affords "the understandably depressed person ... to ask questions about treatment, about the eye disease, and to express the frustration inherent in the experience of losing sight. Usually the realization that they can air their problems and that it's okay to talk about them gets the therapeutic ball rolling." ]
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