Give a get well card. It's just what the Doctor ordered!

Receiving a thoughtfully written get well card when you're unwell is especially welcome. Everyone likes to be remembered by others and getting a card during a period of sickness can serve as emotional medicine.  Pills and potions may cure the body, but thoughts and actions feed the mind.

It's all too easy for our spirits, in mind and body, to become low when we aren't feeling at our best.  We may let ourselves become dejected when we're out of sorts. A Get Well Soon Card serves to remind us that whilst we may be temporarily out of action, others are thinking of us, and wishing us well.  The power of collective well wishes can do much to make us feel tons better.

The power of a get well soon card at these times is two-fold.  We may be out of the social loop for a while and missing our friends.  Routine social activities may have to be on hold, or readjusted when we're not up to mixing.  So a card reminds us that we haven't opted out of action for good - it's just temporary, and those who care for us are hoping we'll soon be up and running again.  Traditional paper cards are even more valuable in such times as we can see them displayed, and pick them up and re-read them whenever we need a 'lift'.

Doctors know that the mind is very powerful in the stages of recovery.  Seeing ourselves well and healthy is the first step to good health. Those who care about us can play a large part in helping us to stay on track, feeling loved and connected.

Often when we’re sick we feel displaced and separate as we can’t carry on our normal routine activities.  We miss doing things at certain times. We can lose touch with people and this can make us feel isolated or claustrophobic. So a carefully written and given card can do so much more than say ‘hope you’re soon back to health’.It really is like a drip-feed of emotional medicine, feeding our need to belong and to feel loved.  

Doctors may prescribe western medicine, but we should all be brought up to appreciate the power of card giving.  Traditional 'visiting of the sick’ was considered an essential part of the Victorian ladies’ etiquette.  They brought gifts of food  but perhaps as important, communication, connection and reminders of their place in the community.

These days cards are an all-too-easy thing to send.  We may think they are trivial and perhaps of little significance.But spare a thought for someone you know who is sick.  Spare a thought – and act on it because the get well card really does deserve the label of emotional medicine.  

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Written by Geraldine Jozefiak
Craft Expert and Demonstrator

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