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link to Why Self Pity Can’t Cure a Lazy Eye: How Self Compassion Can

Why Self Pity Can’t Cure a Lazy Eye: How Self Compassion Can

If you have Strabismus or Amblyopia or somebody you love does, you'll understand that sometimes it comes with feelings of doubt, frustration, embarrassment, defeat, and self-pity. With any trial in...

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link to What is the Best Eye Patch for Adults?

What is the Best Eye Patch for Adults?

In August of 2018, I started patching my strong eye to help strengthen my eye that was weakened because of my amblyopic strabismus. After six months of using different patches 2-4 hours each day, I...

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link to Seven Apple Apps to Correct a Lazy Eye that Actually Work

Seven Apple Apps to Correct a Lazy Eye that Actually Work

With the cost of in-office Vision Therapy so high, I have looked for ways to supplement that therapy at home. I have a found several apps that are great, and several terrible ones claiming to be...

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link to How to Make Your Own Red Lens Patch: Illustrated Guide

How to Make Your Own Red Lens Patch: Illustrated Guide

My Optometrist sent me home with a red lens patch for home vision therapy exercises to help fix my suppression issues. My kids got ahold of it and broke it. The patches aren't available anywhere...

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What is Hot Water Therapy?

While reading the book, The Boy Crisis, I came across a section about Hot Water Therapy and realized that, although they were discussing benefits for ADHD and autism, it could help improve my brain...

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link to 25 Ideas to Try With Patching to Make it Extremely Effective

25 Ideas to Try With Patching to Make it Extremely Effective

When my Optometrist prescribed 4-5 hours of patching a day to help with my strabismus and lazy eye, I was not excited. I searched online and everything was geared towards young children, I wanted to...

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