ion of suffering from Asthma.
"The psychological impact that asthma has on any individual person is determined by many factors, for example:
• Limitation of activities due to asthma
• Social and family support available
• Age at which asthma symptoms started
• Level of asthma-related skills and knowledge
• Overall personality and coping style"
Some of the emotions experienced by asthmatics at some time or another are:
• Fear and Anxiety - fear that they are going to die during an attack, and the fear can continue even when the person is not having active symptoms. Asthma attacks can be somewhat unpredictable and this can be more stressful than events that can be anticipated, therefore causing a person to feel constantly anxious.
• Hypervigilance – which is being too watchful and therefore being too focused on when another asthma episode might occur and so being alarmed by even the slightest
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