Chronic illness affects your mental health. #chronicillness #mentalhealth #sinusitis

Chronic illness. Even though, like sinusitis and nasal obstruction are not life threatening, they are without a question associated with mental health issues, depression, anxiety, social isolation. And a lot of patients, they could become fixated on their sinuses or their nose problem. I think that once they understand that there's a medical professional that's going to come alongside them and that they're going to need treatment, but we can get them better and that they just have to buy in. It's like a diet or a workout plan. You can't go on a diet for one day and expect results. But, but if it becomes part of their lifestyle, then their mood improves. We know that, we know that their depression, their anxiety, all of those things get better if we can improve that chronic sinonasal condition.

Have you seen that as a medical professional, where someone has led a really traumatic life or they've been a smoker or a drinker, they've been beating themselves up or they've been beat up by life and that actually manifests in sinusitis?