Your New Eyeglasses Might Be Making You Depressed

If you go out and get yourself a pair of prescription glasses anywhere in the country today, you will most likely be given ones that have a blue light filter included by default- whether you ask for it or not. They’re selling it to you. They’re charging you for it. And it might be having harmful effects on your health, especially if you’re not using them correctly.?

This was not the case 3 to 4 years ago. There has been a rapid growth in the market for blue-light filtering lenses in the last two years. Work-from-home and online classes have obviously been a big contributor to this as well owing to concerns over increased screen time.

What is blue light and why do we need to block it?

This is fairly common knowledge today- so much so that smartphones today have a blue light blocking “night mode” enabled by default to turn on in the evenings. We have covered the negative health effects of blue light in our blog as well . To reinforce context for this discussion though, let us go through the basics again:

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