[JoeAltmaier]

This is another pointless diagnosis of a cluster of issues centered on an activity. Instead of, you know, centered on the disease. Kind of like diagnosing bad software with "HeadUpButt Developer Syndrome". Cute, a cocktail party line, but not the same as medicine.

[mod]

It's not a disease, though.

It's a condition; one that results from a specific type of activity (extended close work, which is not what our eyes are intended to do).

[JoeAltmaier]

Thanks; I agonized over what word to use. 'Condition' sounds right.

[dazmax]

Lots of human activity boils down to finding patterns and labeling them. Don't you think there could be some benefit to having a label on this cluster of issues, such as making it more efficient to find useful remedies?

I do agree though that there's a danger with this kind of thing to think of it as some kind of single agent and oversimplify. I think we need to be careful to keep in mind the underlying nature of the meaning of these terms.