Living with a chronic condition can be challenging. But you can look for ways to stay involved in life. You can think of yourself in a new way and not as someone who is limited.

If you have a chronic health condition, you have a problem that may not go away over time. Heart disease, asthma, arthritis, and diabetes are just a few of the chronic conditions that exist. You can take an active role in managing these conditions.

Feeling better won't happen overnight. Know that you will feel better with time, as long as you let yourself grieve. Grieving helps you heal since it is a normal part of the healing process.

Losing someone you care about is painful. Grief is the emotional reaction that follows. It’s a normal process, with both physical and emotional signs. But even with major life changes, such as the loss of a spouse or parent, you can face the loss and move on.

Here are warning signs of suicide and ways to get help.

Therapy (also called counseling) is often a helpful treatment for anxiety disorders. With therapy, a specially trained professional (therapist) helps you face and learn to manage your anxiety. Therapy can be short-term or long-term depending on your needs. In some cases, medicine may also be prescribed with therapy.

Addiction is a long-lasting (chronic) disease of the brain that affects how your brain learns and works. Addiction can happen in response to pleasurable things that stimulate the brain’s reward center, such as alcohol, drugs, tobacco, food, and gaming.

A panic attack is a sudden, intense fear that lasts for several minutes when there is no real danger. With it comes terror, physical symptoms, and a strong need to escape from wherever you are. If you have these attacks often, you have panic disorder.

Basal joint arthritis often affects the joint at the base of the thumb, the basal joint.

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