Case Histories
The following case histories from Teachers and pupils of the Method have been gathered since 1995. These pages are periodically updated with new histories: Let us know if you have a story you want to share of your experience with the Method.
More To Bates Than Meets The Eye
Short-sight and other conditions, Age 46
Even though I have had lessons and now teach the Bates Method, I never realised how much my vision had been affected by repressed childhood emotions. In particular it has been feelings of fear and insecurity...
My Search For Treatment
Nystagmus and Double Vision, Age 38
Within a year, I was wearing them all day. I didn’t think too much about it - it was just one of those things. However, nothing could have prepared me at that tender age for the eye difficulties I was to experience for the next twenty years...
Staying Positive with Myopia
Myopia (Short-sight), Age 35
Maybe missing my parents and my family life in general had something to do with it, but just over a year and a half later I developed myopia. I had difficulty in seeing the blackboard and an intermittent ache behind both eyes...
There Is Nothing To Do
Presbyopia, Age 49
My husband, who has been wearing glasses since he was eight, had found a book called "Better Eyesight without Glasses" by W. H. Bates. He read it with great interest, showing parts of it to me and discussing it with me...
Up In The Clouds
Myopia, Age 55
When I think back, it was probably that classic classrom condition - boredom - which brought about my myopia. I was only ten years old. Thus began a lifetime of wearing glasses.
