Mourning the Death of your Previous Life - Part 1The reaction to being diagnosed with COPD is as varied as the people that get COPD. Being diagnosed with COPD may cause feelings of denial, fear, anger, blame, guilt, confusion,...
You Are Not Alone“Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.” – Anthony Burgess I hope you got a laugh out of that quote. You deserve a laugh. Because...
COPD and DepressionSo often with a chronic illness, a person becomes depressed. It gets so difficult to feel like we struggle so often. We get sick of being sick... tired of being...
Fighting Anxiety With COPDIt's not an easy fight when you have COPD, and having the added bonus of anxiety makes it feel like a double whammy. In fact, I would go as far...
The Relationship Between COPD and DepressionI have been writing articles for COPD.net for several years now and there's one topic that I've thought about writing about for all this time, but just couldn't: Depression. I...
Why Are We Depressed?In Part I of this series I wrote specifically about how COPD patients have an increased chance of being clinically depressed and how depression affected our illness, and vice versa...
What Do We Do About Depression?In this series, we've explored the relationship between COPD and depression. We have gone through the reasons why COPD patients have depression. Now, what are we going to do about...
