Ugh, no thank you. This sounds awful. :-/
Understandable lol, it's a bunch of people airing their suffering and talking about ways to combat or at least provide a bit of relief from CDS, but it definitely paints a different picture of what most people assume is a very minor annoyance and shows the actual real life struggles that are associated with the disease.
Fuck, something like dry eye is one of those things that I just can't fully wrap my head around when it comes to driving people to suicide. I've suffered from chronic back and knee pain since I was in high school, so I know how debilitating and crippling that can be sometimes, but I've never been pushed toward anything but sheer anger.
A leap to suicide is clearly on some scale I can't imagine. And given how little dry eye is talked about, it probably doesn't help, either.
Unfortunately it's not something many people openly talk about it doesn't seem. My eyes are always bloodshot and people think I'm high almost 90% of the time. When I explain to them that no, I'm not blazing weed at work, I have chronic dry eye, most people think I'm full of shit either because they don't believe me or they haven't heard of it.
It's fucking annoying and on top of the look of being high out of my mind or look almost like a demon because of the extreme redness, the pain can be unbearable, almost paralyzing. I can't even enjoy basic aspects of life that expose eyes to situations that cause eyes to dry out, like playing video games. I have to constantly blink for my eyes to even remain semi wet, but it doesn't provide relief, just makes the pain not as severe.
Then the fact that your eyes won't get better, they just progressively worsen as you age makes you feel like there's no hope for it to ever be normal.
