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Breathlessness in Depression

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

B. H. Burns
B. H. Burns*
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East Birmingham Group, Hollymoor Hospital, Birmingham 31
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Breathlessness is a difficult symptom to define (Howell and Campbell, 1966). Comroe (1966) spoke of the value of obtaining detailed accounts, in the patients' own words, of how they experience their breathlessness. Olsen (1964), who wrote that, ‘the problem of defining dyspnoea becomes a little easier if it is considered as a complex of completely subjective symptoms,’ also stated ‘it is recognized that difficult breathing may be observed by the physician without the patient being aware of respiratory embarrassment’.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 119 , Issue 548 , July 1971 , pp. 39 - 45
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1971 

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