Surgery of any kind is accompanied by fantasies of helplessness, mutilation, loss of control, body image distortion, castration, rejection and death. 


As you age, you may face:

Feelings of dependency
Depression
Helplessness
Loss of control of your body and life
Financial problems
Reduced social life
Physical illness, pain and other medical or health problems.

All of these problems will likely be intensified when an amputation occurs. Change is hard after all. You have lived decades with the way your body has looked, and you have used your limbs to do things without much thought. Now what you have taken for granted – the way you look, the way you move – has to be looked at in a different way, and you have to readjust to the world.

So What Do You Do?