Sharing intensive care patients' experiences

There are many things that are common among patients recovering from critical illness, but when you're going through it yourself it feels like no one understands you. That's why the motto of ICUsteps is empathy, not sympathy. Talking to someone who truly understands you can be a great relief and that’s where follow-up or drop-ins can be so helpful, but even just knowing there are other people out there who know what you've been through can help. This section includes the experiences of patients recovering from and coming to terms with a critical illness.

If you’re recovering from being in intensive care, writing down your own experiences, memories and feelings can help. It lets you put events in order, start to piece together what happened and begin to make more sense of things. This can be a helpful way of come to terms with what you’ve been through.

It’s a worthwhile thing to do even if you don't want to share them with anyone else, but if you've been through intensive care and would like to share your experience with others please get in touch using the 'contact us' form.