How Emotional Support Acts Like Anaesthesia in Life

A few years back, I had to undergo a small surgery. I’m always afraid of hospitals, doctors and the dread of being in the OT – operation theatre.

The doctor sensed my fear and assured me that an anaesthesiologist would be there, and I wouldn’t feel anything, except the needle prick meant for it in my spine.

It’s not like that, I don’t know how anaesthesia works, but the fear of the operation was overpowering my logical thinking.

As I ended up on the surgery bed, my heart was beating relatively faster, and when I saw the surgical instruments, I felt dread in my mind.

Nothing in that room was calming me, and then came the anaesthesiologist. He was talking to the doctor about surgery and, in between, looking at me.

He too sensed my fear, but without wasting time, he injected something in my spine. After a few minutes, the doctor touched my body where the surgery was supposed to be carried out and asked multiple times whether I was feeling any pain there.

The anaesthesiologist did the trick; I didn’t feel any. The surgery was done successfully, and soon I was out in the regular ward.

That night, sleeping on the hospital bed and thinking about anaesthesia, and how it helps us to forget the pain or at least drifts our mind from that surgery for the time being.

I kept thinking, anaesthesia is great for physical pain, but what about the mental one?

Has science devised any mental anaesthetics yet? I know, a few may talk about the drugs and alcohol. But I think those are deviations from reality and do not work the way anaesthesia works.

Anaesthesia doesn’t halt the ongoing process; it helps to make it smoother.

I feel mental anaesthesia is like someone in our life, who will not take us away from our grief, daily challenges, and the pain in life, but who acts as a soother while living life.

He/she helps us, motivates us, saying that life hurdles can’t be neglected. We have to go through those hardships; we can’t escape.

They sometimes help us to wade through that grief, and many times extend a hand of help through their way of talking, supporting and sometimes just being beside us, doing nothing, just to be with us.

We know for sure that we can’t escape from what life throws at us, but that assurance from someone helps us as a mental anaesthesia.

Also, we too should strive to be of help, mentally, emotionally, to someone, which helps them to go through what they’re going through.

We see those in our family, friends, that preacher, sometimes in some unknown one, who is sent by God.

Be an emotional, mental anaesthesiologist, the one who doesn’t even come with the syringe to prick.