Medically Reviewed
Sean Locke/Stocksy
Most people who have Crohn’s disease know what it’s like to be stuck at home during a flare. It’s difficult if not impossible to socialize with your family and friends when you’re experiencing nausea, diarrhea, or abdominal pain. And those symptoms, coupled with the loneliness or isolation you might feel, can take an emotional toll on you.
Quality of Life Research found that when a young person’s inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is active, they’re more likely to feel embarrassed about their condition and insecure about their friendships. The researchers also found anxiety and loneliness to be common among participants, who ranged in age from 14 to 25.
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By extolling freedom of religion in the schools, President Bill Clinton has raised the level of debate on the importance of religion to American life.[2] The time is ripe for a deeper dialogue on the contribution of religion to the welfare of the nation.
America has always been a religious country. Its first Christian inhabitants were only too anxious to explain what they were doing and why, explains historian Paul Johnson. In a way the first American settlers were like the ancient Israelites. They saw themselves as active agents of divine providence. [3] Today, he adds, it is generally accepted that more than half the American people still attend a place of worship over a weekend, an index of religious practice unequaled anywhere in the world, certainly in a great and populous nation. [4]