Seeking Stress-Relief Exercises for Pre-Surgery Anxiety

Jayne · 2024-03-07T18:57:51-05:00

Are there any particularly helpful exercises that members have learned that they have found to be particularly good to practice in times of exacerbated stress? In my particular case, I am finding the possibility of deep line feeding being a long-term outcome following a necessary reparative surgery to free a section of trapped bowel following a repair for a herniated bowel after traumatic explantation surgery of the TIES device. Whilst I totally trust my current surgical team, I am not in the best place as regards being mentally relaxed and positively prepared for my upcoming further surgical intervention. Some folks who are strong, personally motivated, well-researched individuals have had the benefit of counseling for post-traumatic stress, and I am coming to learn that such counseling should not be viewed as a personal weakness but as a sensible, supportive, facilitating action in order to best prepare the patient to be in the best possible place in preparation for ongoing surgical procedures. However, frustratingly, there is an extensive waiting list here within the UK to access such therapy—currently in excess of four months and then counting after an initial assessment! Hence, I am throwing open the question of what useful exercises—self-help techniques—the membership here has learned whilst in trauma therapy! Accordingly, I invite not the sharing of personal details—which are a private matter—but the sharing of specific methodologies that patients have learned from their respective counseling therapists which have proven to be of ongoing benefit, allowing a practical action on the part of the patient as learned when receiving trauma therapy. I feel that such a sharing may not only be of personal benefit to me but also be of general interest to the membership. I thank any member who is prepared to share such methodologies they have learned through professional therapy. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ waves from the hills of Mid Wales and the coastal shores of Pembrokeshire, in the UK ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Trauma therapy apparently can offer really helpful hands-on participation by the patient ??? Thanks in anticipation of a public exchange of practical methodologies. Best wishes Jayne