…How does diabetes affect you or your loved one mentally or emotionally? How have you learned to deal with the mental aspect of the condition? Any tips, positive phrases, mantras, or ideas to share on getting out of a diabetes funk?..
I take my Type 1 Diabetes for granted, and so does my husband. I inject both my basal and fast-acting when I’m awake, asleep or distracted. (My Timesulin Caps on both my Apidra and Levemir pens help when I’m too distracted!) Anyway, the only time we notice my emotional changes is when I’m high or low. Especially low.
I remember when I was in college and (unbeknown to us) I had developed Pernicious Anemia. As a result,I was down to a disastrously low number of red blood cells. I was watching television when my husband asked if I’d done my homework for my midterms yet. I answered, No I haven’t done my homework because I don’t understand any of it, and I don’t even understand the plot of the TV show I’m watching. I was watching “I Love Lucy.” My husband the Medical School Professor got me first to the doctor’s office, then to the hospital, within two days. So what? you may be asking. The answer is, that is how I feel when I’m low. I start muttering, I don’t understand, I don’t understand… Emotions rise!
The tip/ answer, at least in my case, is to have perfect blood glucose at all times!!! Good luck on that.