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Feelings About Diabetes Depression and Denial
By: Michael Russell
This is the second installment on the article "Feelings About Diabetes". Even though they can be read separately, it is recommended to read the previous installment first before read this one.
People can also tend to feel depressed when learning that they now have diabetes. Anybody can have days when they feel gloomy. A severe depression can be taking place when a person feels bad and miserable for more than fourteen days. Being depressed can come from a physical rather than a psychological source, so it is important to check with a doctor first. Some telltale signs of being depressed is thinking you're too much responsibility to your friends and loved ones or feeling that you are inadequate. A person can feel like harming themselves and that life is not worth living. People that are depressed sometimes come to tears at a drop of a hat.
A person may be experiencing depression when they have sleeping problems. Waking up prematurely and once awake it's the worse time of the day because you feel so blue and poorly in the morning more than any other time of the day. When a person does try to sleep, they keep getting up through the night or the opposite, they sleep too much. There's no desire or contentment in things a person once loved to do. A person can't stay put because they are so jumpy and edgy or the opposite, you feel wiped out and have no strength.
A change in eating habits can be a telltale sign of depression. For example a person that was usually labeled as having a big appetite now eats like a bird and has lost a lot of weight. The opposite is also a telltale sign of depression e.g. a person that used to have a small appetite now eats like a horse and has gained a lot of weight.
A person can have come to a point where they want to deny the disease when they first learn they have it. They needs to find information on how to be and stay in good physical shape and you can't find that out being in a denial state. Someone is probably in a denial state about being a diabetic when they don't take the time to exercise, when they only take part of their medication, when they don't check in with a health professional, when they don't watch what they eat or when they don't take care of injuries properly.
A person should fight to restrict it rather than deny having diabetes. Develop a diabetic strategy, with the help of a health professional, on how to keep diabetes under control. Set aims that are reachable as well as good for you and always remember patience is the key. Don't be afraid to ask loved ones and friends to help you out. More times than not, when a family member is diagnosed with a health condition and has to change their eating habits, the whole family's eating habits are changed as well with little or no resistance at all.
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