Stress Management Support Group
Stress management defines stress as a person's physiological response to an external stimulus that triggers the "fight-or-flight" reaction.Stress can be overwhelming. This community is for best practices in stress management.
Well I should've wrote this discussion earlier when it began but I was too stressed I couldn't even think straight. Well I had an ACL surgery on August 10th and I had to start school late. I felt so alone right after the surgery because my friends or family didn't visit me. And my boyfriend didn't text me much during that time either only to tell me that people feel uncomfortable with other people in pain. So i felt alone and that's where it started. I began to feel so much like a burden, especially the first time I took a bath after the surgery, since my sister fainted twice and my mom and little sister began to cry, because I was crying and/or because of the 2.5 inch fresh cut I have on my knee. So I felt alone and like a burden, this triggered my depression. Then when I was finally able to go back to school, I was behind in my classes, AP classes advanced and all. So I got stressed. This stress really brought back my depression. So I felt lonely, like a burden and then stressed. My suicidal thoughts are coming more and more. I think this is all linked to the stress more then the loneliness or the feeling like a burden. So that's why I came here.
Any ideas?
Any ideas?
Many hospitals have started doing 1 of 2 things to deal with this. Either they give the patient mood elevating drugs or short term SSRIs, OR they teach "mindfulness meditation" to reduce the psychological stress, to improve the level of depression , to improve the speed of healing.
When I broke my leg last winter, I went to a lousy hospital that did neither. Luckily (?) I was also clinically depressed, going to a good psychiatrist and therapist, and THEY told me all this and got me on mood elevators and started on some basic mindfulness. If they hadn't, god only knows how things would have turned out.
My advice? Read these articles below, to reassure yourself I'm not just making all this up. Watch the video below, a talk from one of the molecular biologists at MIT doing a lot of the research and teaching on all this. Then talk to your doctor IMMEDIATELY about all this and get moving on using medical and psychological science to recover faster.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3052954/
http://journals.lww.com/aswcjournal/Fulltext/2012/01000/Exploring_the_Effects_of_Pain_and_Stress_on_Wound.10.aspx
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/health-advice/2010/04/16/does-stress-hinder-wound-healing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_If4a-gHg_I
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(95)92899-5/abstract
My dad has been to the hospital after throwing up blood from a bleeding ulcer. I get some people are afraid of that king of thing but I was a home health aid and can take a lot. Blood doesn't phase me.
Stress and depression can definitely go hand in hand. I've had depression for years. I hope you are doing better now, both physically and mentally.
I think physical therapy comes next if I'm not mistaken. I broke my wrist bad, had surgery and pt. It hurts at first but pt's work miracles in my opinion. Wishing you a speedy recovery.