How To Beat The Hospital Syndrome
- lesrjohnson28
- Oct 6
- 2 min read
Millions of people all over the planet have to spend time in hospitals, a dreadful experience, especially when diagnosed with awful illnesses like I was. We are taken away from our loved ones, our normal lives, have to put up with operations, not particularly nice food (if we can eat that is, I was lucky, the hospital I am in do their very best to make me feel comfortable, excellent service), and the worst scenario is sleepless, painful, lonely nights waiting for dawn to crack and our loved ones to visit us the next day.
My first night I was in oblivion laying in intensive care after a 7 hour operation, it was anxiety pure. Luckily after the OP, "MY ROCK", my wife, was allowed to comfort me, this eased my anxieties. Then the recovery process begins, a tough period for everybody, I guess?
Pain, examinations, injections, daily visits to the doc, and if one is lucky, gradually, after a few days, one feels better like I luckily did. However, these damn lonely long nights are the worse thing after the OP. Everything else we can take, but these nights are just so depressing.
So, what did I do? My laptop is my saviour without it I would have gone MAD (others have smartphones, I do not). Emails and chats with the family during the day, watching footy in the evening, but then the night approaches, and that is when the darkness arrives, physically, and in the mind, especially if one cannot sleep!
My solution to combat the lonely nights, YOU TUBE! I chose to listen to music, mediative music, which becomes therapeutic, plus other music that means so much to my wife and me, my kids, and the rest of the family. We all have different tastes of music, naturally, but below are just a few links, which without them, I would have ended up with a state of mind close to depression, and severe bouts of loneliness.
As mentioned, our music tastes are diverse, however, I wish to offer people in the same situation as me a method of combatting lonely, dark nights in a hospital bed. Just choose your own taste of music, not mine, but one thing is sure, through music our world becomes unified, enlightened, and music is therapy for the troubled mind, without it those lonely, dark nights would have been a 'horror trip'.
Here are a few Links which helped me:
There are many more of course, but I will leave that to the people who read this blog to find their music which will help them in a similar situation than me, much love, Les Johnson
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