Initial reactions of having a chronic illness is shock, this may only last for a small period or may even continue for weeks on end, occurs to a certain degree depending on a person’s chronic illness, usually happens when an illness happens without any notice. Subsequently using emotional strategies such as shock, anger and denial, reality then takes place: symptoms then get worse or stay the same depending on the diagnoses of the illness, it come to be clear that modifications need to be made in order to suit the treatment of the illness. Not all patients have the same response to having a chronic condition, some people may be very ‘relaxed and calm’ while others may become really ‘scared and unable to move from shock’, many patients tend
