Physical chronic diseases/disorders limit mobility and most often occur as a result of an anatomical problem(s) within the body. Common chronic physical illnesses include asthma, arthritis, back problems, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart problems, and diabetes. 

Physical Chronic Diseases

Co-morbid illnesses refer to two or more conditions presenting simultaneously in a person. Co-morbid illnesses can occur as only physical conditions, mental conditions, or a combination of both.

Co-Morbid Illness

Also called psychological disorders, these are disorders rooted in mental thought patterns that impair the person's functioning, with specific disorders having their own disgnostic criteria. 

Mental Disorders/Mental Illnesses

- Physical Chronic Disease
- Mental Chronic Disease
- Comorbid Chronic Disease

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Chronic illnesses (also referred to as chronic disease or condition) is a condition that lasts for a year or more and requires frequent medical care. Chronic conditions can effect or limit the activities in one's daily life.

Chronic Illness

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When children are diagnosed with chronic illness, parents often have to become full-time caregivers. This, compounded with work and other life stressors, lead to depressive symptoms and stress in parents.

Grief in parents caring for chronically-ill children

 A large percentage of people have Chronic Illness; the chronic illnesses have significant psychosocial ramifications for both the affected person and their family members. This in return creates new challenges for the field of psychology.


The Impacts of Chronic Illness

- Health-care Utilization
- Reduction of Activities
- Temporary Disability


Impact of Chronic Illnesses

Due to an ever evolving social and economic world, healthcare needs have changed drastically over the decades. These changes have influenced the lived experience of people with chronic illness and disability. This is because these individuals have an added struggle of not being perfectly healthy. A growing body of research focuses on the relationships between society, the self, disability, and illness. 

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