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PERCEPTION IN A LUNG DISEASE PATIENT’S MIND

A GENERAL OVERVIEW

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Asthma
Lung Cancer & COPD
General Self Management
Professional Mental Health
Psychosocial Support
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  • Feeling of restlessness
  • Decreased / compromised productivity at home chores and work
  • Lack of confidence
  • Exercise intolerance leading to incompetency
  • Social stigma related to public perception of the illness, usage of inhalers
  • Feeling of exclusion/prejudice based on the illness
  • Feeling worried and helpless, situations under control
  • Irritability because of daily medication
  • Pessimism, reduced sleep, decreased appetite
  • Increased lethargy, lack of motivation
  • Concentration difficulty, and social withdrawals
  • Hopeless, feeling down
  • Guilty if habits like smoking led to respiratory ailment.
  • Distressed due to long term expenses on medication and medical consultation

Asthma

With triggering factor aggravating asthma and with the help of inhaled medication it suppresses it and relaxes airways. However, since it’s recurrent, it is not only associated with physical limitations but hampers the mental state as well. It the help of coping mechanism where you can modify the situation, change the meaning of your experience and remove the stress (e.g. improve asthma control, accept the disease, be optimistic about the sickness course).

Lung Cancer & COPD

Lung diseases are chronic and in severe diseases like Lung cancer and COPD are triggered by various risk factors, hence have be to be dealt lifelong. In these chronic and severe lung diseases one faces inability to perform activities of daily living, social relationships, mental health and family finances.

Hence, a lifelong approach of continuous care is needed both medically and for mental well-being.

  • Anxiety and panic attack when you can’t catch your breath make life difficult.
  • At each step from diagnosis to treatment lung disease patient need interpersonal support for sound mental health.
  • For those with lung cancer an early palliative care and cancer treatment often runs in parallel.

Lung diseases are chronic and in severe diseases like Lung cancer and COPD are triggered by various risk factors, hence have be to be dealt lifelong. In these chronic and severe lung diseases one faces inability to perform activities of daily living, social relationships, mental health and family finances.

Hence, a lifelong approach of continuous care is needed both medically and for mental well-being.

If you are facing

Symptoms for depression

  • Low mood
  • Loss of interest in daily activities
  • Fatigue or low energy levels.

Symptoms for anxiety

  • Fear
  • Restlessness
  • Sleep disturbances
  • Reduced concentration and memory

It is important that you seek help by your health professional.

General Self Management

Anxiety and depression management

  1. Talk to someone close, family, friends, your doctor and support groups
  2. Keep yourself active
  • Moderate levels of activity is necessary for good lung health, with better sleep which will help in reduction in stress and anxiety
  • Relaxation
  • It is a way to stop anxiety once you spot early signs of tension. With the help of exercise such as yoga where you breathe in slowly and deeply helps in relaxing muscles and clears your mind.
  • Listening to music, watching TV or reading a book
  1. Enroll into a pulmonary rehabilitation if you are facing from severe lung disease
  2. Keep a diary
  • Writing about your daily problems such as panic attack and when you get anxious which will help in keeping track about your trigger factor. In this way one used it as repository of lessons from the previous experience for maintaining motivation levels.
  1. Self-help reading: Diverge from the anxious feeling through motivational pieces
  2. Eating a healthy diet help to manage anxiety. Do avoid alcohol and coffee to make yourself relax.
  3. Reassure yourself with treating yourself and also engage yourself in a hobby

Professional Mental Health
Treatment & Support

  • Mental health professional’s: Counselors, Psychologists can help in developing palliative care by primary education and services to address the mental trauma that patients with lung disease face.
  • Psychological:
  • Relaxation
  • CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)
  • Health mentoring is a self-management intervention that uses cognitive behavioral techniques to provide skills to improve self-efficacy and disease management, and to change unhealthy behaviors.
  • Psychological counselling sessions
  • Talking therapy (Psychotherapy)
  • Complementary health approaches like Professional Relaxation techniques
  • Family-focused therapy and interpersonal therapy.
  • Pulmonary rehabilitation
  • Pharmacotherapy: Antidepressants
  • The collaborative care model (case management)
  • An approach for managing chronic disorders of depression and anxiety involving care managers and consultant psychiatrists, with primary care physician. Care managers include nurses, social workers, or psychologists
  • Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)
  • A form of therapy where the therapists uses techniques such as mindfulness and acceptance to help you through difficulties with the aim to change the experience due to negative thoughts and feelings so that if they reoccur you don’t experience them in the same negative way.
  • It provide support to people with mental illness 24/7.
  • ACT is mostly used for people who have transferred out of an inpatient setting but would benefit from a similar level of care and having the comfort of living a more independent life than would be possible with inpatient care.
  • Personalized nine-session intervention for depression and COPD (PID-C)
  • PID-C is offered by care managers who, through support and targeted interventions, help patients to work on their exercise regimens and take antidepressants. The care managers also collaborate with the patients’ physicians in monitoring the patients’ treatment and progress.
  • Light therapy
  • It is used to regulate the hormone melatonin by exposing a person to full spectrum of light
  • Comprehensive treatment plan
  • Acupuncture, meditation, faith and nutrition
  1. Self-help reading: Diverge from the anxious feeling through motivational pieces
  2. Eating a healthy diet help to manage anxiety. Do avoid alcohol and coffee to make yourself relax.
  3. Reassure yourself with treating yourself and also engage yourself in a hobby

Psychosocial Support Mechanisms
For Chronic Lung Disease Patients
with metnal Illness

  1. Psychosocial treatments
    With the aim to provide support, education and guidance to people with chronic lung disease and mental illness and their families. It includes:

    2.   a. Psychotherapy
      b. Social & Vocational Training
    It help to improve the quality of life for individuals with mental illness and their families and can lead to fewer hospitalizations and less difficulties at home, at school and at work.

  1. Psychoeducation
    Psychoeducation teaches people about their illness and how they’ll receive treatment. Educating the family and friends by learning about coping strategies, problem-solving skills and to recognize the signs of relapse. The benefit of Psychoeducation is to ease tension at home among the families and help the person to recover from mental illness.
  1. Self-Help And Support Groups Helping and supporting each other by sharing frustrations, successes, tips on what works best when trying to recover. It address the feelings of isolation and to open up about their mental health condition. A bond of friendship is created among the members of group to help each other to recover
  1. Psychosocial Rehabilitation Psychosocial rehabilitation helps people in developing those skills such as social, emotional and intellectual skills in order to live happily. Psychosocial rehabilitation uses two strategies for intervention:
  • Learning coping skills so that they are more successful handling a stressful environment
  • Developing resources that reduce future stressors
  1. Supported Employment Certain challenges come in the path of recovery and wellbeing making it difficult to manage during work. Vocational Rehabilitation provides career counseling and job search assistance for people with disabilities, including mental illness
  1. Economic relief / Financial assistance measures
  • Connecting them with voluntary health organizations
  • Assist in fundraising providing health assistance through health insurance schemes to aid in the financial burden due to these chronic lung illnesses affecting the mental health framework.

General Tips

  • It’s good to take a break for yourself if you are feeling overwhelmed this can help you feel refreshed.
  • Family and friends are the one who encourage and support you so share your feeling with them and stay in touch.
  • Think about ways to look after your physical health, prioritize sleep and aim to make healthy food choices. Exercise helps and motivate one by relieving stress and improving health.
  • Try to identify your stress indicators, such as short temper, withdrawal from friends and family, feeling overwhelmed or drained.
  • Take things slowly don’t rush for it. Spend some time with yourself that will help you to feel calmer or happier.
  • Enjoy your hobbies- reading, listening to music, cooking, go for a walk
  • Seeking help for yourself- speak with your doctor.

References

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