# If a burn changed your body

A new burn needs immediate assistance. Serious injury should not wait for reading about scars: contact a competent local service and follow its instructions. This article concerns subsequent life and is no first-aid protocol.

Wanting treatment, pain relief, or changed appearance does not require calling injury a benefit. You need not love scars, look in a mirror on demand, or display your body to demonstrate gratitude. The article discusses questions for a burn team, agreed assistance and touch, intrusive questions, photographs, intimacy, and work. Choose a useful subject and one concrete agreement. No creams, massage, stretching, pressure, or procedures are prescribed. Respect and participation remain when feelings about a changed body are still unsettled.