Treating Both The Mental & The Physical Sides Of Diabetes Is A No-Brainer.

Last night’s DSMA chat was of course of pedagogy virtually Diabetes.  But this week's chat was all virtually the mental side of diabetes inward all dimensions. As inward all the baggage diabetes creates, re: food; nutrient issues, self esteem, blood sugars, the stress of managing blood sugars, sentence together with doctors treating the mental side of diabetes together with non exactly the physical, etc. 

It was an amazing chat & BIG THANKS to Cherise for making it happen!  

So amazing that I’m nonetheless thinking virtually it today. 

And equally far equally me together with 99% of final night's DSMA chat are  concerned, HCPs must process the mental side of diabetes besides equally the physical. 

Diabetes is damn hard to live on amongst because but put: Diabetes is constant together with never ending. 

Sure, in that place are days when diabetes is easier to manage, when it’s non together with thus all encompassing - together with those days are cracking - But fifty-fifty on the expert days, diabetes is correct past times our side - together with inward our heads.

And in that place are days when diabetes is incredibly hard to live on with  - And I’d divorce myself from diabetes inward a hot 2nd if I could. 

Because on those days, Diabetes makes me cry tears of anger, frustration together with isolation.

There are moments though when nosotros mourn our lives pre D - fifty-fifty when nosotros don’t actually recollect much virtually our lives earlier diabetes. 

And in that place are together with thus many moments when nosotros trounce ourselves upwards for what nosotros did our didn’t exercise inward the past times - And the Diabetes Guilt eats us alive. 

Diabetes together with low go manus inward hand. 

We are non our numbers, but PWDs are ever judged past times our numbers. 

Numbers are everywhere when it comes to living amongst diabetes. 

Our lives amongst diabetes are measured inward numbers - Units of insulin, grams of carbohydrates, blood sugars, labs together with A1Cs. People amongst diabetes run into numbers on their plates instead of food. 

And every number has a story. 

And people who don’t live on amongst diabetes don’t know or desire to know those stories - or know that those stories fifty-fifty existed.  They exactly desire us to live on expert together with conduct maintain expert numbers, period.

But diabetes... together with living amongst diabetes isn’t dark together with white, because diabetes is never the same illness 2 days inward a row. 

And diabetes tin flip it’s bitchswitch faster than the five seconds it takes for your blood refined saccharify to flash upwards on the screen. 

Diabetes is hard work.  

And our diabetes is non our fault  - Even though the bulk of the globe thinks it is. 

Sidebar: Thank y'all media for non doing your jobs.

So it’s paramount that healthcare professionals instruct people living amongst diabetes coping mechanisms virtually treatment our lives amongst diabetes. 

I’s critical that our healthcare professionals speak amongst us, non at us - And that they encourage us to talk..... Or speak amongst someone. 

Because it's OK to speak to person when diabetes gets overwhelming - It actually is together with I do.  

Diabetes back upwards both on-line together with off should live on mandatory, non a luxury. Nor should patient peer back upwards online inward the course of pedagogy of blogs, twitter, online communities, facebook live on considered a fad - because it’s not. It’s helping tremendously together with it’s hither to stay. THANK GOD.

Having Diabetes is non exactly virtually having a broken pancreas or a screwed upwards metabolism. 

And the endocrine organisation affects pretty much everything inward our bodies - So why wouldn’t it final result our emotional good being?? 

So yep, treating both the mental together with the physical side of diabetes is a no-brainer inward my book.