wellllllllll, I have Crohn's and not IBS but there are some similarities here ......
Back in February in the hospital when I was first diagnosed with Crohn's, I had a bad enough reaction to the trauma of the hospital thing (3 weeks in hospital, 2 emergency surgeries, 5 days on a ventilator in ICU, coupla blood transfusions, etc.) that my surgeon sent a shrink in to see me. I was on 24-hour heavy morphine and pretty much outta there, but I did grasp what she said and remembered it. She told me chances were about 99 percent that in the next 6 months or year when it all soaked in what I was faced with, I'd go through a Major Grief Thing.
I kinda shrugged that off, but when it did happen, I was prepared for it. So I survived it okay.
However, without Jill's book on Crohn's, and without this message board, I probably would have done a major face-plant like the shrink said. (And FWIW i'm not using the term shrink in a derogatory way, it's a term of endearment.)
Whether you should or need to or want to join a group thing is up to you and how you operate. Personally, that would NOT work for me. Far as I'm concerned, these boards (thank you Heather!!!) are FAR more useful for that. If you do a crash-and-burn (or feel one coming on) then by all means get yourself to a specialist and pick an option.
But don't pretend it's not an issue. It is.
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Re: The Psychiatric Part of All this
