Tag Archives: Emotional Health

Emotional change and your illness

Being diagnosed with asthma, managing chest infections, attending clinic appointments, changing life roles, can all be challenging. Dealing with these challenges can trigger emotional change – worry, stress, anxiety, frustration, irritability, low mood being some of the emotions experienced. These emotional changes can subtle or be sudden, and can trigger the anxiety response. Addressing any […]

How do you explain how you feel?

Try thinking about how your COPD affects you physically, emotionally and socially. At different times these three parts in your life may be more or less important. There may be times when all three parts are having an impact on how you are coping. Once you know how these affect you, telling this to others […]

Family and friends

Even those close to you may not appreciate how your asthma is affecting you physically, emotionally and socially. Everyone leads a busy life and sometimes family and friends don’t offer help because they don’t know you need it or they don’t know how to help. Talking about what help you need or what you are […]

How do you explain how you feel?

Try thinking about how your asthma affects you physically, emotionally and socially. At different times these three parts in your life may be more or less important. There may be times when all three parts are having an impact on how you are coping. Once you can identify how these affect you, telling this to […]

Key messages

Remember breathlessness related to anxiety is normal. It is your bodies way of trying to help you in situations which you find difficult or in which you worry about your ability to cope. Explore and understand the triggers for your anxiety. If you find anxiety is becoming a problem which is affecting your day-to-day life. […]

Emotional change and your illness

Being diagnosed with a lung condition, managing chest infections, attending clinic appointments, changing life roles, can all be challenging. Dealing with these challenges can trigger emotional change – worry, stress, anxiety, frustration, irritability, low mood being some of the emotions experienced. These emotional changes can be subtle or sudden, and can trigger the anxiety response. […]

Your emotional health

Being diagnosed and living with any chronic illness can be stressful and lead to lots of unexpected changes in your life. People with lung diseases can experience increased worries, anxiety, low mood or depression. Your emotional health is just as important as your physical health and being diagnosed with COPD can be stressful. Your doctor […]