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I didn't know where to go with this question, but I figured this would be the best place.
This is kind of difficult to explain, but I have had a problem with my eye movement recently. I have been living with this problem for about a year, hoping that it would get better. I lived the first 18 years of my life perfectly fine without this problem. I can no longer stand this problem and it needs to be fixed. I used to very confident and socially outgoing, and this has destroyed any confidence that I had. It has caused me to avoid all eye contact if possible.
This may sound crazy, but here it goes. Whenever I shift my gaze, I have no awareness of how wide my eyes are open. Specifically when people are close to me. If i have to turn my head to look at someone, I almost always unintentionally look at them wide-eyed. For example: I will be looking down at my phone. When I look up, I will forcefully shift my gaze upward (it doesn't feel smooth) to try to look at whoever has addressed me. My eye movements to look at something upward are especially jagged. I struggle to meet their eyes quickly, and am often completely wide-eyed trying to find their eyes. People always give me weird looks when I do this, so I always know when it happens. I have no sense of this otherwise because of the tension I feel in my eye movement. Obviously, it is not normal for someone to look at another person like this. It is hindering social interaction for me. As a pre-med undergraduate student, I desperately need to fix this problem.
Basically my eye movement feels forced and puts tension on the rest of my face. What often feels like a neutral face, isn't a neutral face. Moving my eyes feels less smooth than it used to. My eye movements feel spastic. When my gaze is transfixed on something for some time, its almost as if my eyes lock into that position. When I move them after this "lock," it feels even more unnatural than normal.
I have this weird theory that my relatively crooked nose that I have is pulling the skin on one side of my face, causing my face to feel tense, which somehow messes with my eye movement. I notice when I use my hands to push my skin over where it would be if my nose were straight, my face feels a little more relaxed and less tense.
Does this sound like a medical issue to anyone? I have tried to look up research about this, but haven't had any luck. Sorry for the length of this post, but I felt like I had to adequately explain my problem if I have any hope of someone telling me what it is.
This problem is literally ruining my life. I cannot look someone in the eyes without feeling self conscious. Does anyone have any advice about this?
This is kind of difficult to explain, but I have had a problem with my eye movement recently. I have been living with this problem for about a year, hoping that it would get better. I lived the first 18 years of my life perfectly fine without this problem. I can no longer stand this problem and it needs to be fixed. I used to very confident and socially outgoing, and this has destroyed any confidence that I had. It has caused me to avoid all eye contact if possible.
This may sound crazy, but here it goes. Whenever I shift my gaze, I have no awareness of how wide my eyes are open. Specifically when people are close to me. If i have to turn my head to look at someone, I almost always unintentionally look at them wide-eyed. For example: I will be looking down at my phone. When I look up, I will forcefully shift my gaze upward (it doesn't feel smooth) to try to look at whoever has addressed me. My eye movements to look at something upward are especially jagged. I struggle to meet their eyes quickly, and am often completely wide-eyed trying to find their eyes. People always give me weird looks when I do this, so I always know when it happens. I have no sense of this otherwise because of the tension I feel in my eye movement. Obviously, it is not normal for someone to look at another person like this. It is hindering social interaction for me. As a pre-med undergraduate student, I desperately need to fix this problem.
Basically my eye movement feels forced and puts tension on the rest of my face. What often feels like a neutral face, isn't a neutral face. Moving my eyes feels less smooth than it used to. My eye movements feel spastic. When my gaze is transfixed on something for some time, its almost as if my eyes lock into that position. When I move them after this "lock," it feels even more unnatural than normal.
I have this weird theory that my relatively crooked nose that I have is pulling the skin on one side of my face, causing my face to feel tense, which somehow messes with my eye movement. I notice when I use my hands to push my skin over where it would be if my nose were straight, my face feels a little more relaxed and less tense.
Does this sound like a medical issue to anyone? I have tried to look up research about this, but haven't had any luck. Sorry for the length of this post, but I felt like I had to adequately explain my problem if I have any hope of someone telling me what it is.
This problem is literally ruining my life. I cannot look someone in the eyes without feeling self conscious. Does anyone have any advice about this?
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