Depression in Dialysis
Journal Title: Nephrology – Open Journal - Year 2015, Vol 1, Issue 2
Abstract
When was the last time you talked to your dialysis patient about depression? And what prompted you to start the conversation? It may be that our patients are not talking to us about the way they feel regarding the treatments we offer them, but they are definitely talking about it amongst themselves online; On a facebook page named “Dialysis suck,” and a website titled “Ihatedialysis.com”, where dialysis patients are able to express the distress and discomfort, the sadness and loneliness they feel while on dialysis. One dialysis patient writes about her experience in the first 4 months of dialysis from the latter website:” I had dialysis yesterday, and it seemed endless. It has been hurting, stinging, throbbing, infiltrating, fistula grams, balloons, rogue beings, narrow arteries, I went to bed crying and I woke up crying. I am as alone as I can ever remember”, When I am not at dialysis, I am spending my days off on the phone with doctors or on here or something like that, documenting the latest damage so I never get a break. There is no joy to offset this experience”.
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Khuloud Shukha
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