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New Publication! RI CEO, Avril Daly, contributed to a new article on PVDD: 🔗 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40123-026-01362-9 [Authors: Tariq M. Aslam, Focke Ziemssen, Anat Loewenstein, Rajesh Nair, Mhairi Thurston, Amanda Hawkins & Avril Daly] #Ophthalmology

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Post-Visual Diagnosis Distress: The Weight of Threatened Sight - Ophthalmology and Therapy Receiving a diagnosis of a vision-threatening eye condition is a psychologically salient event for many patients. Across ophthalmology, fear, uncertainty, and emotional distress are commonly observed at the time of diagnosis, often before substantial functional vision loss occurs. Although depression and anxiety are well documented in chronic eye disease, diagnosis-linked distress remains inconsistently recognised and is rarely addressed systematically within routine ophthalmic care. This article introduces post-visual diagnosis distress (PVDD) as a descriptive, nondiagnostic framework to... https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40123-026-01362-9