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Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Aug 22, 2023 11:53:44 GMT -5
Like stretching before you work out. You stretch so your muscles won't be as sore. There will still be some pain but it's mitigated so speak.
Can you condition your mind or is it just compounding your anxiety to try to mentally prepare yourself?
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Post by minx on Aug 22, 2023 17:07:08 GMT -5
I say it depends. There are certainly situations where cognitive behavior therapy helps. Fear of flying is the most cited example.
So if you have a situation where you know that you'll consistently react and can't avoid it, I think you can somewhat prepare to make anxiety manageable. But it's not easy IMO.
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Post by Dave's Not Here Man on Aug 23, 2023 11:00:58 GMT -5
I agree that it depends. Not sure where I was going with this topic yesterday. I think it started when I was sitting here in excruciating pain in my back, butt, and upper leg........ along with the throbbing feet/heels. Might as well stick with that for the context.
I'm 100% sure most everyone of a certain age has come to a point where they had to make decisions about invasive medical treatment. Of those, most have probably waited until they were out of options, which is kind of where I'm at with the back. The snafu here is that in order to go that route, I'm going to need to get my mind right. Some folks probably don't think much about it and it's just another day or two on their schedule, depending on the severity slash scope of the procedure. The trust their doctors and their insurance and their caregivers, etc... well, because they are already right in their head. My other uncle told me that when they took him to pre-op he had no worries. I think he meant it and I think many others do to but I can't even walk out the door for more than an hour without a plan in mind. How much more difficult would that planning be for say, spinal fusion surgery? The architecture of that plan alone (for me specifically) would be like designing the Borg ship.
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Post by minx on Aug 23, 2023 12:16:31 GMT -5
I totally get that! Hell, I think of contingency plans for a damn colonscopy! So something like back surgery would completely freak me out too.
And I don't think that someone is necessarily 'right in the head' if they put their full and entire trust in the medical system without doing research ahead of time and making sure all the i's are dotted and the t's are crossed. So I don't think it's a matter of you not being right in the head at all.
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