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Minor op - OCD at all time high
Hello again! I have OCD and Sociophobia. I need to have a routine minor op to have a skin tag removed at the end of this month which has snowballed into a general EUA using general anaesthetic at the same time and haemorrhoid Bandung so FREAKING OUT!
I have a major fear of falling unconscious outside my home and a stranger assaulting me so this minor op is bringing out this fear. I was not expecting to be put out under general so feel very helpless. At the moment, the op is not worth the mental anguish to be honest. My major concern and I know it sounds silly, is being assaulted when I'm unconscious in hospital. This, in my mind, will need another HIV test in 3 months and I can't go thru that again.
I've talked to the hospital - some are sympathetic but most of the staff make me out to be awkward and aren't listening. I've talked to my parents but didn't go well - wish I hadn't bothered with any of this. I only wanted the skin tag gone and was rallied into a sigmoidoscopy in December which was hard enough
I have a major fear of falling unconscious outside my home and a stranger assaulting me so this minor op is bringing out this fear. I was not expecting to be put out under general so feel very helpless. At the moment, the op is not worth the mental anguish to be honest. My major concern and I know it sounds silly, is being assaulted when I'm unconscious in hospital. This, in my mind, will need another HIV test in 3 months and I can't go thru that again.
I've talked to the hospital - some are sympathetic but most of the staff make me out to be awkward and aren't listening. I've talked to my parents but didn't go well - wish I hadn't bothered with any of this. I only wanted the skin tag gone and was rallied into a sigmoidoscopy in December which was hard enough
Sertraline and Quetiapine - I have just been allocated a mental health support worker too.
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