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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
Hellow good people, hope you all doing fine....how do your family members react towards you and diabetes, are they comfortable around you or are they comfortable to talk about the condition in your presence.....?
Now that would really annoy me, 5 people asking! Then showing dissapointment, what the hell, are they the diabetes police. They need to be supportive with constructive comments.My family talk about it too much! Very comfortable and supportive but sometimes it's a bit stressful having 5 different people ask you how your blood sugars are! Especially if they are all over the place because sometimes they're disappointment makes me feel like it's my fault when realistically some days my blood sugars will go crazy for no reason!
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Hellow good people, hope you all doing fine....how do your family members react towards you and diabetes, are they comfortable around you or are they comfortable to talk about the condition in your presence.....?
Why don't you sit them down and have a big diabetes talk? Tell them that you want support and not pity, explain what diabetes means to you and what you want from them? My friend who got diagnosed at 18 felt her family treading on eggshells around the topic, after a year or two of this she sat them down, explained her life with diabetes and said it made things a lot easier.I am sure she could have been supportive other than cry all the time feeling sorry for me or avoiding the talks about it.
I even hate it when they think I am not supposed to be on my own
Main thing I found was that people often have loads of questions but no idea how to comfortably broach the subject. Hope it goes well!Thank you, that might actually work, will organize a get-together and detail everything to them.