Depression Is Something Your Board Certified Plastic Surgeon May Not Tell You About
They want you to think that before undergoing major cosmetic surgery, it is enough to talk with a board certified plastic surgeon about the benefits and risks of the procedure you are undergoing. It is not. At the very least you should talk to your family and close friends. You should probably see a psychiatrist as well. Although a board certified plastic surgeon knows more than any of these people about surgery, he will know much less than your close friends or your medical health care provider about what effect such a procedure is likely to have on you.
I have felt insecure all my life about my appearance. My breasts were too small and my nose too large, my lips too thin and my eyebrows too thick. It seemed that nothing about me was right, that everything was awkward and gangly. I’ve always been very all or nothing about things. For years I was completely against the idea of plastic surgery. Eventually, my curiosity got the best of me and I went to see a board certified plastic surgeon. I told him all of my insecurities about my nose, my lips, my eyebrows, my breasts. He told me that these were not issues that I had to live with that through the services of a board certified plastic surgeon, I could have the body I had always dreamed. I had saved up a good bit of money and against my better judgment, decided to go for it and schedule several procedures for two weeks from that day.
As was required by law, the board certified plastic surgeon met me immediately before the procedure and asked me if I was still confident that it was what I wanted. I was sure of it at the time. I had not even talked to my family about my surgery and when the bandages came off, I could hardly recognize myself. And not just because of the swelling, either. The board certified plastic surgeon explained to me that it was nothing, that I would get used to my new appearance, that all my friends would like the new me even more but I couldn’t shake that feeling of being a stranger in my body, of not being what I was supposed to be. My board certified plastic surgeon told me nothing of the psychological strife this would cause of the months of depression and of losing my job before finally pulling out of it.
