Free emotional support hotlines for chronic and physical illness in Alabama

Battling to come to grips with a physical illness? Get support from a free hotline in Alabama, United States

It’s hard to maintain a positive outlook when your life is disrupted by physical illness. The basic tasks of daily life might become too challenging to handle alone, and you may start to feel like a burden. In Alabama, United States there are 2 helplines you can reach out to for support if you are feeling:

• Guilt about the burden your physical illness has placed on your family and friends.
• Regret or shame about what you may have done to cause or deserve your illness.
• Denial, reluctance or an inability to accept your diagnosis or medical condition.
• That you are struggling to cope with the unpredictable or disabling aspects of your illness.
• Grief about the health, mobility, social life and peace of mind that you have lost.
• Self-hate over what you’ve become or what feel you must have done to deserve it.
• Fear of future physical discomfort, pain, changes to your routine, and possibly death.
• Worry that you are a burden and no longer as active or capable as before.

Depending on your illness, personality, age, lifestyle and home support system, there are a range of difficult emotions you may be feeling. Illness can be life-changing, and it is always unexpected.

You have the potential to face the challenges of illness with resilience and grace – but you do need support. By reaching to a helpline in Alabama, United States, you can talk with counselor or volunteer who understands the unspoken, emotional effects of physical illness. Contacting a helpline doesn't mean you're weak – it simply shows that you are human.