What are the psychological effects of amputation?
About ≥30% of amputees are troubled by depression. Psychological morbidity, decreased self esteem, distorted body image, increased dependency and significant levels of social isolation are also observed in short and long-term follow up after amputation.
What to say to someone who had their leg amputated?
This includes:
- “You’re such an inspiration.” This can be perceived as patronizing.
- “So…
- “You can’t do that!” Well…
- “I know someone who lost an arm/leg.
- “Let me do that for you.” As a person adjusts to their limb loss and/or new prosthetic, there may be tasks that they have difficulty with.
What psychological challenges are likely for a below knee amputation?
Feelings of shock, anger, frustration, sadness and grief/loss are all common and normal, particularly in the initial stages. People also tend to experience increased stress and worry (eg. due to financial strain), along with feeling a lack of control and a sense of isolation.
What is integrity dysphoria?
The term body integrity identity disorder (BIID) describes the extremely rare phenomenon of persons who desire the amputation of one or more healthy limbs or who desire a paralysis. Some of these persons mutilate themselves; others ask surgeons for an amputation or for the transection of their spinal cord.
What is a apotemnophilia?
Background: The syndrome of apotemnophilia, body integrity or amputee identity disorder, is defined as the desire for amputation of a healthy limb, and may be accompanied by behaviour of pretending to be an amputee and sometimes, but not necessarily, by sexual arousal.
Which is the best definition of an amputation?
Amputation is an extraordinarily broad term, covering the entire range of body-part loss. It covers the loss of part of a finger to an entire arm to chest-wall level, and from the loss of a toe all the way to the entire leg or pelvic area. Even above-pelvis, waist-level amputation is occasionally required.
Can a person survive with a traumatic amputation?
As such, with the significant advances in haemorrhage control and resuscitation that have been made, survival is not only possible, but common. As well as large explosions, such as terrorist bombings, traumatic amputations can be caused by smaller devices such as antipersonnel land mines.
What is the medical definition of a nontraumatic injury?
Medical definition of nontraumatic: not causing, caused by, or associated with trauma and especially traumatic injury.
What are the pitfalls of emotional empathy?
Pitfalls: Can be overwhelming, or inappropriate in certain circumstances. Emotional Empathy, just like is sounds, involves directly feeling the emotions that another person is feeling. You’ve probably heard of the term “empath,” meaning a person with the ability to fully take on the emotional and mental state of another.