Edwin Leap: “In some ways, I wish I had the skill. It must be liberating to succumb to the stress, to fall to the ground, give up the ghost. I’ve spent my life trying hard to seem strong and competent. The people who raised me, the wife I married, her family, our children, my role models, all are people who believe in seeing it through. We have not, to my knowledge, had anyone pass out among the lot of us. But I can’t help but be intrigued.”
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Very very funny.
At my level I Drama center I always tell them that I must report it to the DMV. It often leads to quick cures of pseudoseizures and other dramatic presentations.
I did get quite a chuckle out of the posting. Then I remembered that I do get easily vagal when I am the patient, even a simple phlebotomy. What I have learned on my own was how to read my response to my situation, and create for myself a self hypnotic state. Doing this I had no problem with having a hernia done under local anesthesia; I was comfortably able to converse with the surgeon and med school friend during the procedure. It was an hour later when I relaxed my concentration and let my mind wander to the ‘thought’ of having surgery that I had to have my head lower than my feet in outpatient recovery.
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