A woman explains why she removed her breast implants and refused to put them back, even for a hundred million dollars. She describes the emotional toll of losing part of her identity and credits her partner Michael with helping her through recovery. Dr. Robert Whitfield discusses how this kind of loss can trigger unexpected grief.
And I mean this wholeheartedly. If you had paid me a hundred million dollars, I still would not put those implants back in. Like, that's. That's the mind fuck of it, is that I was like, ew, get these implants away from me. I don't want them. And when they were out and you go from a double D to a C, and it's weird, I still don't want them back in. So the feeling is very like. It's like you can't grab the feeling because you don't know what the feeling is. Does that make sense?
It's like, you know, you're not. The balance is gone, right? So you have this for a long period of time. It was part of you.
It's like a narrative and an identity.
And then when you take it away, there's no. It's not this. It's not balanced anymore. And you have to balance out, you know, the system, if you will. And obviously that's a little bit deeper. And it's hard for people to get to that point. And people get extremely frustrated, extremely sad, sometimes very emotional in the office. And that's why it's great to have someone like Michael who's very supportive because we can only do so much in a very short appointment time. But afterwards, that's where he can be supportive of you, just like other significant others and spouses are supportive of their, you know, situation.
And he was. And I think.
Let's talk about how great I am for the next 10 minutes.
What you did do that really helped is you looked at me and you said, you made the 100%. And now that I'm like, to the other side, I'm like, yes, I feel so much better. But I think that it is important to have a supportive partner.
Well, I mean, listen, I'm all. And we've talked about this for. I'm all for people doing things that are going to make them look and feel better. But the key part of that is feel better at the end. If you're doing things and you're not feeling better, you shouldn't be doing it, or if there's any kind of vulnerability. One more question for the. For the skeptics out there, for people that are saying, hey, this is not proven that this is what's causing inflammation, or I don't believe that this even innate. These people may actually be people that actually have these symptoms, but they don't believe it could be from breast implants.
