Vision is a crucial part of our everyday lives and it also one of the most important senses and the one we take for granted. Do you know what its like to experience a day without the sense of vision? Would you be able to handles the uneasiness with faced with a day with blurred vision? After experiencing a whole day with my monocular sense of vision, I decided to research about the other types of visual problems and their relation with other disorders. One of the visual disorders that I have been familiar with is diplopia. An old family friend of mine suffers from this disorder and has been seeking treatment for a while now. Diplopia is also commonly known as double vision and is the “simultaneous perception of two images of a single object”, according to Wikipedia. This disorder can monocular or binocular, which means that monocular diplopia is usually active when only one of the eye is open whereas binocular diplopia is the result of misalignment of both of the eyes and disappears when either of the eye is closed. Binocular diplopia can be a cause of several things but mainly results from the misalignment of both of the eyes on different objects. When the brain perceives two different images, it causes the eye to see two different visions of the same object and sometimes causes one of the images to be blurrier than the other. The disorder of double vision can usually be treated with eye muscle surgery or vision therapy. Here are some visuals of diplopia.

As I researched more about the procedures of vision therapy and relationship with other disorders, I was appalled by the amount of research that has been on how vision is related to several other disorders. One research that caught by eye is the study done by Roger Johnson and The New York State Optometric Association Vision Screening Battery (NYSOA) as they tried to find how attention deficit disorder (ADD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), dyslexia or dyslexic, or oppositional-defiant behavior, is related to vision problems. In the study, 81 elementary, middle and high school students were tested in order to rule out the possibility of vision difficulties leading up to these disorders. The study also revealed that students who were at risk for behavioral or academic problems, scored significantly lower on vision tracking abilities. In fact, a great amount of studies have shown on how a lot of behavioral disorders, especially ADD and ADHD, are mistakes for actual vision problems. This article by DB Granet also shows how plenty of children are being treated for behavioral problems, when in fact the vision problems are not being treated.