Respiratory Diseases

A blocked nose, a scratchy throat, rattling bronchi, a cough that will not stop. Maybe it is a cold that keeps coming back every few weeks. Maybe a bronchitis that settles in like an uninvited guest. Maybe a chronic sinus infection that turns your face into a pressure cooker. Maybe a general susceptibility — you are always the first to catch something and the last to shake it off.

Respiratory diseases are the most common complaints of all. Medically, they involve viruses, bacteria, inflammatory responses. Seen through a psychosomatic lens, a pattern emerges that runs deeper than any pathogen: your breathing space — the space you allow yourself for your own life — has come under pressure. And your body expresses this exactly where it is most acutely felt: in breathing itself.