Coping with Hospitalisation
Hospitalization can be an experience of being comforted and "cared for".
However, there it can also be an experience anxiety and depression - in common with many situations where we have less control over our lives than is comfortable and where there is a loss of our normal activities and routines. There may also be pain, disability or uncertainty to cope in connection with our medical problem.
A miserable hospitalisation experience can produce a miserable, demanding or "difficult" patient. If this produces an aversive reaction in hospital staff, the vicious circle of "ward stress" may become established, where negative feelings in staff and patients become mutually sustaining.
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Coping with Hospitalisation |
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Impatient Patients |
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Hospital Staff |
Rather have two and make bl**dy sure! |
WAITING TO BE DISCHARGED
(my life to enlarge) When will it come? When will I be home?
Not soon enough... |
Expressing our feelings creatively - in art, humour or poetry can be a healthy alternative to "wallowing".
Wallowing is where negative emotions drive negative thoughts, words and deeds. These negative thoughts, words and (destructive or insensitive) actions in turn tend to generate more negative emotions in both ourself and the people around us.
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