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Is It Their Eyes? - Could Your Patients' Psych Symptoms be Due to Binocular Vision Disorder?
Psych Congress 2023
Currently, Binocular Vision Disorder (BVD) is not a differential diagnosis that appears on the radar of the majority of psychiatric providers. BVD is a vision disorder that currently can only be diagnosed and treated by a NeuroVisual Medicine Specialist. The symptoms of BVD quite frequently present as psychiatric in nature, but they are not able to be affected with psychiatric medications. That means that many BVD patients present to psychiatric providers for treatment. The cure? A pair of glasses with microprisms.
Could your treatment resistant anxiety, depression, TBI or ADHD patients actually be dealing with a vision disorder rather than a mental health diagnosis? Psychiatric providers that are educated on the signs/symptoms of BVD are well equipped to administer a research-validated screening tool and refer appropriate patients to NVM specialists for treatment. A prevalence study performed in an outpatient psychiatric clinic indicated a significant percentage of patients seeking treatment for mental health symptoms screened positive for BVD. Increased education helps get these patients to the proper treatment and prevent unnecessary treatments and medications and unnecessarily extended suffering.
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