Overcoming Burnout of Taking Care of Your Diabetes

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Dear TuDiabetes Community,

My first 2 years of caring for my diabetes type 2 took off like NASA's Space Shuttle Program. Then all my efforts and work came to a quick halt the same way NASA's Space Shuttle Program did.

For the past 6 months I have been in a funk to get back to caring for myself. While trying to bring my A-game to take care of my health, it also brought stress, defeat, burn-0ut, and me jumping off the bandwagon to care for me.

So here are my questions: How do I return to my A-game of yesterday? How do I confront the sea-saw effect in my care towards diabetes? How do I get back on the bandwagon?

Any positive or successful comment will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

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just give it time & it'll all fall into place.

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Personally, I find guidance from the things that motivates me most In everything I do, diabetes or not. These are: Love for Life, Strength from my Faith, and Love for my Family.
Love for Life. So many wonderful places to see, people to meet and interesting things to experience. Life in general is beautiful.
Strength from my Faith Confidence in God that He will always be there. That I am blessed with life and family. And that He will always provide.
Love for my Family. I think most individuals have their families as motivations. They need me as much as I need them. And I care and love them so much.
These are the things that "push me back in the bandwagon", stand up and fight again when defeated, Strive more to take care of myself. So far, think I have been successful. Basing it from my own benchmark of course. May not be easy sometimes but...c'est la vie :)

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Dear Brubraja,

I appreciate your remarks. I appreciate you being straightforward and very real with me. I've never considered the reality that I will never be healed from Diabetes such as the likelihood of being healed from cancer, the flu, the common cold, or even an addiction to drugs. Wow. You've popped and opened my eyes to into another compartment to my battle with Diabetes.

I feel your deflated, defeated, and hopeless state of being. That is something I fight against daily. And although it does get tiring confronting my journey with Diabetes and no cure in sight, it's not something I want to succumb to-DEFEAT.

I do have hope in the efforts to "get better and work harder" to improve my condition. For instance, I do know that I have to lose at least 75 pounds, bring my BMI to 26-28. Begin eating a lot better than I am now. Continue to efficiently take all my meds, exercise, research, and practice what I need to do to get at all my goals. There is hope for me.

There is hope for you too. I agree with you, you are probably not the only one feeling like you feel right now. There are others who probably are exactly where you are right now. But giving up is not an option for you, for me, or for anyone else out there fighting to control their Diabetes journey. I encourage you to seek out people to talk to, a mentor to help you, a group of people who are walking in the same shoes to help you get out of this pit and move forward.

Yeah, your right. I don't have a cure to heal me from Diabetes Type 2. I don't see a cure around the corner. But I do know that researchers are working around the clock looking for one, working towards one, and that is hopeful enough for me.

In the meantime, I will do my part to get to optimal levels of healthiness that I can get to. That is my fight. That is my hope. Have tons of work to do. But I'm not going to let Diabetes defeat me, deflate me, discourage me, and kill me. I will try to adapt to living with this disease. I will try to continue making life with Diabetes. At the very least, if I go down with Diabetes, I will go down swinging to the best of my abilities.

You can do this Brubraja! I am counting on you to work out your own solutions to the pieces of your life to encourage people who are in the same boat as you, and for people like me who need a little push once in a while to get going again on the journey. Best wishes to you.

Peace,
Chezbo