Table 1 Examples of statements on feelings related with brace treatment

    "I didn't want to hear that I have something serious that requires such therapy..."

Fear

    "Many times I was afraid to look at myself in the mirror..."

    "I felt a huge weight on me...I was a little bit afraid about that..."

Stress

    "I felt as if my breathing was stopping..."

    "The first day at school, I felt very ill-at-ease about how my classmates will treat me..."

    "I was worried about the brace being visible under my clothes and I didn't want to go outside the house, not even to have fun..."

Anger

    "At first I was angry with my parents, with the doctor, with myself..."

    "During the first days I was very angry and I was behaving hostile towards everybody..."

    "My life had changed and I was getting angry about it..."

    "I was very angry, I wasn't me, I was someone else, a snail that was carrying its shell..."

Shame

    "I was ashamed to go out..."

    "I was ashamed about wearing the brace at school..."

    "I was ashamed when my classmates were looking at me strangely..."