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Light Sensitivity (Photophobia)
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Also known as: Photophobia · light sensitivity · glare sensitivity · sensitive eyes to light · photosensitivity · light causes pain · dazzled · sensitive to light · light-shy eyes
Your Body Is Speaking
Your eyes recoil from the light. Brightness that is taken for granted by others — sunlight, fluorescent tubes, the glow of a screen — becomes overwhelming for you. You squint, you turn away, you seek the shade. What means warmth and clarity for others means pain for you.
Medically, light sensitivity has many possible causes — from migraine to inflammation to neurological irritation. The psychosomatic perspective poses a different question: Why does your system experience brightness as a threat? What is so difficult to bear about being seen, about being visible, about the clarity that light brings?
Light sensitivity is not simply a sensitive reaction — it is a retreat from something that wants to shine within you.
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