The person is unable to relax accomodation for near back to distance. When they go for an eye exam, often distance glasses are prescribed. Distance glasses clear blur, but the problem of near over-focus remains and the cycle of annual prescription changes and increases continues. If the near point vision problem is not addressed, the progression of pseudo-myopia will eventually lead to more dependence on the distance prescription. Real doctoring involves identifying the cause of the changing vision and making recommendations to slow the vision changes down, stop them or reverse them.
Human beings are highly adaptable organisms.
The body will alter function to accommodate needs for which the system isn't able to compensate for. After enough use, the adaptation, if successful, may become part of the system for which it was meant to modify. Incipient nearsightedness brought on by focus problems is an adaptation our technological society is adopting. Most people in school or in white-collar occupations spend 6 to 10 hours of their waking day involved in near activities. Pseudo myopia, or false near focus is the bodies' modification for increased need to see at near.