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                    Individuals with Crohn's disease face challenges everyday due to their disability, but they are not the only ones who face challenges. There are also challenges and issues that are faced by their families, especially if the patient is a child with Crohn's disease. There are issues related to the symptoms Crohn's disease patients can have. For example in societal areas, like school and work settings. As well as accommodation for children in the classroom.  Challenges and Solutions One of the biggest challenges individuals with Cronh's disease is regaining normality back. (Jiayin and Yunxian, 2019) Receiving a diagnoses of Crohn's disease can be shocking and hard to take in at first. This is because those with Crohn's disease have to make changes in their life to accommodate the disease as well as be more careful in everyday activities. In other words Regaining normality is referring to  reassessing and r...

      Crohn's Disease is  a inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Inflammation caused by Crohn's disease can involve different areas of the digestive tract in different people, most common is the small intestine. Throughout this blog we will talk about psychological concepts, theories, and models that relate to Crohn's disease. Also being discussed will be how individuals around others with Crohn's disease can help.      Psychological Concepts The psychological concepts that are connected with Crohn's disease are stress, depression, and anxiety of feeling alone. Those with Crohn's face an increase in their stress because of the need to cope with daily threats. (Marini & Stebnicki, 2018) For example not getting to a bathroom in time. They also have to worry about fulfilling familial, social, and vocational roles. (Marini & Stebnicki, 2018)  Depression is higher in patients with Cronh's disease than any other disease. Depression can make yo...

      Mike McCready Mike is a lead guitarist for a band called Pearl Jam, who was diagnosed with Crohn's disease at the age of 21. Mike has always been very open about Crohn's disease because he has not let it stop him from doing what he loves.(Team Challenge, 2022) He has stated that it has not been easy, he has had accidents on stage, has been on numerous medications, coped with the stress of traveling, and much more. Mike has found a foundation that he is a spokesperson for that has helped get through this process as well. The foundation is called Crohn's and Colitis Foundation. Mike also host fundraisers every year for this foundation, an shares his story through the media. Mike's goal is to show others who have this disease that it does not have to prevent you from achieving your dreams. (Team Challenge, 2022)      Self-Concept and Perceptions When Mike was first diagnosed in 1986 he states in a video that it was devastated. He says living wi...

      Symptoms from Crohn's disease Crohn's disease an inflammatory bowel disease condition characterized by skip lesions and transmural inflammation that can effect your entire GI tract from mouth to anus. (Feuerstein, and Cheifetz, 2017) Diarrhea, abdominal pain, weight loss, nausea, vomiting's, and in some cases fevers and chills are all presenting symptoms of Crohn's disease. There are also three main disease phenotypes, inflammatory, structuring, and penetrating. While there are these three underlying disease phenotypes, there is also the chance that up to a third of patience will develop perianal involvement of their disease. In some cases extraintestinal manifestations may develop. (Feuerstein, and Cheifetz, 2017) This diagnosis is typically discovered with endoscopic and/or radiologic findings. Crohn's management is usually done with pharmacologic therapy. which is determined based on the severity and underlying disease phenotype. The goal of management is t...

                                                                                           Overview of Crohn Disease    Crohn disease is described the same today as it was in the past. It is a disease that causes inflammation or swelling, and irritation of any part of the digestive tract. ( U.S Department of health and Human services, 2011) What has changed from the past of Crohn's is the information we have researched and learned about Crohn's. For example Crohn's disease is one of the two main forms of diseases of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, which are named inflammatory bowel disease. (IBD) Accompanying Crohn's disease is chronic or long lasting inflammation that can cause scar tissue to form in the ...