Busting mental health myths… UNDER ANESTHESIA

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Job over 50 yrs ago I had was with inebriating / explosive fumes. 1+1/2 yrs duration just beyond High School. Before 19 yrs old.
Polyester resin(Bondo). As the foreman said, "Lose your Azz in Fiberglazz". Situational Awareness is more prevalent since then. The original M&M for me • Seargent Mike the Marine. Or shall we say, SM²+ worked there.
Anesthetics or fuzziness will affect adrenaline. Go at full throttle up.
Commented on the gaslight topic recently. So many Nurse Rachets out there.
The job before that, I was a janitor at a nursing home.
A dedicated occupational therapist there. Mary wasn't a tyrant but "Kindness was not weakness".

So mega 10+ level migraine dailey are murderous????

Thank you so much for your wisdom and knowledge Doctor!! I experience every issue you describe during and after surgeries. I absolutely dread having Any kind of procedures.

The FIRST thing I tell any doctor is that I am the proud owner of a trauma brain. That means I have a short-circuit in my stress-control center. If my body were a car, it could go from 0 to 100 in a split second without warning. That light-hearted talk up front often puts doctors or nurses at ease and makes the trauma response part of the process.

For example, when I was due for a spinal tap, I apologized in advance that my hypersensitivity might cause me to bolt upright or inadvertently jerk and disrupt their needle, and I didn’t want my jumping to scare them. They thanked me, regrouped, and talked to me before any touch or contact. Basically they treated me with kid gloves. It was painless.

Thank you for this. Education is everything.

I was an OR nurse for many years and stopped practicing in 2021. I have never seen an anaesthetic doctor or a surgeon who would care that much about mental health issues. Basically, most patients with any mental health issues were viewed as “a nuisance”. In fact, I have worked with a few anaesthetists who used to shame people to their face for their alcoholism, depression or obesity issues.

Whenever I had a patient with anxiety, I’d let them hold my hand until they went to sleep, just because I felt it was the right thing to do. I was laughed at and told to stop this nonsense many times.The worst part was working in PACU where patients were waking up from their procedures and a lot of times it felt like I had to be trained in mental health nursing to be able to help my patients recover properly. And most of the time I had more than 2 patients, so I ran between all of them, recording their obs, giving pain relief but not really being able to support them and help them feel safe. Just give them enough pain killers, so they are ok enough to go to the ward where they are no longer my problem. It was like a conveyor belt.

It is a systemic problem. And most of the time it’s just the luck of the draw – pray you get a good doctor and good nurses, it’s rare these days.

Now, when I watch your videos and see how much you care about your patients, I just want to thank you for being a great doctor! Love from Australia! ❤

Thank you so much ❤ 🙏👍

Wow, this was really interesting. Thank you.

I've been existing with Complex PTSD (separately diagnosed by 4 psychiatrists) for over 40 years. Mental health professionals that I've seen have told me that it is a life-long challenge for most people with the diagnosis. People talk about mental health stigma reducing in society – this is not my experience and it's not the experience of other patients of a psychiatric hospital that I've spent far too many weeks in.

Dear Doc, June 2 I had surgery for a third rod replacement after …I couldn’t hold my torso upright. He gave me a miracle. I can stand up right now and I don’t appear deformed. I went thru 5 Ketamine sessions prior to my ortho surgery hoping to bring “the best” me to surgery. I believe it helped consider the traumas that followed. Fluid overload whoops and it shifts to my lungs and I’m headed from recovery to ICU. No memory whatsoever by me the first days. Good thing I figure. I am so happy with the results of his surgical skills and commitment… don’t wanna push my luck at this point…he set me free. Free. M

I'm not sure if anyone else has mentioned this, but…Many of us don't like our Dr's knowing if we have mental health conditions. My experiences have been for them to blame any physical illness on our mental health. I spent too many weeks in the hospital the last 18 months due to them looking at my chart and assuming. From a missed hairline fracture that turned into a full-blown break, needing hardware, 9 screws and knee repair! Once back on my leg. I had been having belly issues for at least 2 or more years. He had done blood work that showed I was sick. He knew with what but wouldn't tell me. He sent me to the ER. ER ran their tests, confirming what I thought it was. I refused transport and drove 2 &1/2 hrs. myself. I was pretty sick, I was there for a week by then, getting all kinds of tests and procedures, one being a colonoscopy. They decided to change the type of surgery and sent me home the next day. I get home and feel funny, weak and kept passing out and became unresponsive. They had lacerated my spleen and it ruptured. I was dieing and was given a 2% chance of surviving.
I lost my spleen, they found damage to my pancreas and my gallbladder. I now also have brain damage from lack of blood and oxygen to the brain. I will be dealing with the consequences for the rest of my life.

This REALLY needs to be considered more by those treating our severely autistic children.

I remember waking up from surgery with deep dread and sadness, as if my whole family died. I wonder if that is a common thing?

I have been trying to tell people that the stress I have been under is going to kill me. I wish I could have a chat with every anaesthesiologist I've ever had

Don't know what is going on my videos, I tried to give thumbs up on this and wouldn't change the number. I love this Dr.

I love how you are with the times. Brandy X. Lee has said we (the whole human race on the planet) are in the Psychological times. This is just a significant as the industrial revolution in how it will impact humanity. Now if only the med and dental schools would take the information in and share it with their institutions and get it in the heads of all therein.

Thank you, for bringing this much needed awareness

If you have ANY health issue that a doctor can't figure out, treat and call it a day in 15 minutes you are a screwed patient. To think my Ortho Surgeon who did my cervical fusion C2 to T2 posteriorly and ACDF anterior 3-7 plus Laminectomy punted me because my other back issues kept getting ignored and still having pain and neurological issues from cord damage 9 months after my surgery. Stenosis, myleomylacia, myleopathy and osteophytes, scolosis, osteoarthritis, and every disk in my back has damage to some degree. And to think, I never even asked for any pain meds from him ever, and he still sent me away with 2 crappy, usless referals words saying there was nothing else he could do for me.

Think that's going to going to affect me from now on