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This link takes you to a video that illustrates some common psychological problems that you might experience while you recover from an ICU stay. It also describes things that can help improve those problems.
Admission to an intensive care unit because of critical illness or an accident can have a huge impact on someone's life, both physically and emotionally. Many people said that, as well as recovering physically, they had to accept and deal with what had happened to them emotionally. Here people talk about recovering emotionally after being in intensive care.
If you live in England and are aged 18 or over, you can access NHS psychological therapies services. A GP can refer you, or you can refer yourself directly without a referral. This link will help you find NHS services in your local area
The NHS Talking Therapies, for anxiety and depression programme (formerly known as Improving Access to Psychological Therapies, IAPT) was developed to improve the delivery of, and access to, evidence-based, NICE recommended, psychological therapies for depression and anxiety disorders within the NHS. From small beginnings in 2008, the programme has steadily grown so that nearly 1.2 million people were able to access services in 2021/22. This expansion was the result of training and...