Did you/do you have to do any grief or forgiveness work?

This is a side-shoot from my posted answer to Jo Anne's posting on Emotional Issues: Counseling 09/24/99: Hi. I don't know what is usually done for post-ops (I'm still pre-op; pre-consult, in fact), but I know what I'd welcome: Grief/Forgiveness work for myself as my body changes. I think it's important, because I believe that in order for us to heal completely, we also need to grieve the loss of the "old" person, including the weight, which for some of us provided a safety net as well as major health hazards. With that in mind comes the forgiveness work. To forgive one's self for having an illness, for becoming and remaining fat for so long, for isolating one's self from life, etc., etc. I know that in the past, whenever I lost major amounts of weight, I felt like I also lost myself. I think the post-op therapeutic support would be at least as important as the pre-op support. Just my $0.05. (inflation, you know. :) )

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