In this episode of Can I Butt In, Bowel Research UK's Patient and Public Involvement Manager, Sam Alexandra Rose, is joined by Jacqueline Black, a doctoral researcher at Kings College London with a background in health psychology. Some of her work is funded by Bowel Research UK, and they discuss how having a chronic illness can inflict stress on a patient, and how stress can affect the illness that a person experiences. Along with this they outline different methods that people can adopt to cope with that stress that comes with chronic illnesses, including creative writing. Read the transcript for this episode. Find out more about Bowel Research UK. Music is “Summer Guitar” by Amaksi from Pixabay.