True KD... as I continue to ponder (when I should go to sleep!) One of the first things an asthmatic is told when experiencing an attack is to calm down... because it's so easy for panic to set in, and thus exacerbating the breathing problem! While I am not of the bent that asthma is only emotional illness, the two aspects do tend to go hand in hand, I think.

Plus we all know when we get down emotionally, our physical health suffers too. IDK, maybe psisci can speak to us on this. Maybe it's because we tend to quit taking care of ourselves then, or maybe it has as much to do with lowering our tolerances to germs and such?