I think this is something that does need to be investigated. So many of us in pain go through depression and yet it is rarely addressed pre-op, and even less post-op.
I feel very sorry for myself. I am in maneageable pain, but I am facing a multiple-level surgery that may leave me in more pain. I find that I have little energy to do anything. I have done virtually nothing to decorate my house for Christmas, not even the things I physically can do, like hang a wreath on the front door. There is already a nail on the door from previous years, the wreath is in a cabinet that I can reach, the wreath is not at all heavy, but somehow I just don't do it.
Mark's client is obviously going through even worse problems than I am, yet I still feel depressed. I have tried all the obvious things that people tell one to do, but it doesn't seem to help.
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