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From: lorena joyce on 18 Jun 2008 08:35

I was a panic attack and agoraphobia sufferer for over twenty years.
During that time, having shared my life with this terrible twosome, I
worked out a few ways of making my life more tolerable if I had to
venture out into the big wide world. And I'll share a couple of them
with you here.
One of the things that I noticed about my anxiety related illness is
that it seemed to turn the brightness on my vision up to the top. So
much so, that viewing something like a large area of concrete on a
sunny day was physically painful to me. But even on a dull day the sky
seemed to be way too bright.
One way I used to combat this was simply by wearing sunglasses. I used
brown ones and found them to suit me the best. I once tried gray and
they were of no benefit whatsoever. An easy and inexpensive way that I
discovered to pick a suitable color, that didn't involve me leaving
the house, was to order some transparent film from an arts and crafts
store and I just held the different colored films up to a window and
looked through them until I found one that had a calming effect. In my
case this was brown or green, However, I also found that blue made me
feel sad and red made me feel agitated. So I knew to avoid these
colors at all cost....

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