ITV Coronation Street's Samia Longchambon opens up on health battle with 'painful' side effect

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Coronation Street star Samia Longchambon, 41, has given a candid insight to her struggles with anxiety, often shedding light on the topic on social media to fans.The actress, who plays Maria Windass in the ITV soap, frequently gives insights into less optimal days and shares activities that help her maintain tranquillity, including yoga sessions within her dressing room before hitting the set.However the mum-of-two hasn't always found managing her condition quite so straightforward.

In 2022, during an appearance on Loose Women, Samia revealed a past misdiagnosis she received as a child, reports the Manchester Evening News.At the time, doctors incorrectly identified her crippling anxiety symptoms as asthma. "Everyone who knows me has always known I'm quite an anxious person," she publicly acknowledged on the ITV show in August 2021. "I'm known for being a bit of a worrier and being really cautious with everything." She continued: "I've had anxiety since I was a child and when I was a child, my mum took me to the doctors and the doctor first diagnosed asthma because I couldn't get a deep breath.

So they ended up giving me inhalers when I was about 11 thinking that it was asthma but it wasn't, it was anxiety."In a recent update, Samia shed further light on how her fight against anxiety personally affects her.

Taking to Instagram, she shared a view of her nails, some looking visibly sore around the cuticles.Her caption read: "I always pick my fingers until they hurt when I'm overthinking. "I do it without realising...