How to Mentally Prepare Yourself for Surgery

  Surgery is an extraordinary and potentially stressful event for which you need to mentally prepare yourself. After all, any surgical intervention almost always involves a certain degree of nervousness. This varies, depending on the type of operation, the risks, the situation, or the coping strategies in place. Unsurprisingly, most people experience anxiety before any intervention of this type. While it’s impossible to completely eliminate anxiety, it’s possible to significantly reduce it and better cope with it. That’s why it’s so important to prepare yourself mentally for surgery. Actually, you don’t have to do anything elaborate. It’s enough to adopt some…