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<blockquote data-quote="mangobe" data-source="post: 766126" data-attributes="member: 22581"><p>I've had similar thoughts [USER=30007]@tim2000s[/USER] but I've come to the conclusion that since managing diabetes well (T1 especially) requires unusual discipline and an unnatural focus on controlling levels and measuring quantities etc, it just isn't humanly possible to avoid sometimes being rather obsessive if you want to achieve the best state of health. There is so much information to take in in order to be well informed enough to make the best use of the tools currently available, and then so many calculations that must be done, all day, every day, to apply the tools and information, that it inevitably takes up lots of energy and time whenever you are not just coasting along on automatic. </p><p></p><p>For many years I worried about my tendency to swing from obsessive focus on multiple tests and 'diabeeting' all day, to being far too slack and not thinking of it at all beyond habitual routines and then not testing enough. I couldn't work out how to find a 'middle way' and castigated myself for that, thinking it was a personality failing - that I had a tendency to OCD, or was trying to deny the issue by not being able to keep focused on it, and that I should be able to fix this. But after 34 years (of pretty good control overall), now that I've been able to read about so many others experiences on forums, I accept that living with Diabetes just IS life that won't continue very happily without effortful control, control which will always seem unnatural and obsessive in comparison with the lives of those free of Diabetes. There's no choice, so no wonder periods of frustrated 'burn out' are common, but another benefit of forums is that we also share the inspiring and reassuring news posted by those who achieve great health, or happiness with their lot, motivating the rest of us to keep at it - managing this relentless condition. It's true that living as spontaneously as others isn't possible, nevertheless opportunities for living in the 'now' continue, as long as we are mindful. Perhaps a moment devoted to 'diabeeting' can be as valid a moment as any other in the day.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mangobe, post: 766126, member: 22581"] I've had similar thoughts [USER=30007]@tim2000s[/USER] but I've come to the conclusion that since managing diabetes well (T1 especially) requires unusual discipline and an unnatural focus on controlling levels and measuring quantities etc, it just isn't humanly possible to avoid sometimes being rather obsessive if you want to achieve the best state of health. There is so much information to take in in order to be well informed enough to make the best use of the tools currently available, and then so many calculations that must be done, all day, every day, to apply the tools and information, that it inevitably takes up lots of energy and time whenever you are not just coasting along on automatic. For many years I worried about my tendency to swing from obsessive focus on multiple tests and 'diabeeting' all day, to being far too slack and not thinking of it at all beyond habitual routines and then not testing enough. I couldn't work out how to find a 'middle way' and castigated myself for that, thinking it was a personality failing - that I had a tendency to OCD, or was trying to deny the issue by not being able to keep focused on it, and that I should be able to fix this. But after 34 years (of pretty good control overall), now that I've been able to read about so many others experiences on forums, I accept that living with Diabetes just IS life that won't continue very happily without effortful control, control which will always seem unnatural and obsessive in comparison with the lives of those free of Diabetes. There's no choice, so no wonder periods of frustrated 'burn out' are common, but another benefit of forums is that we also share the inspiring and reassuring news posted by those who achieve great health, or happiness with their lot, motivating the rest of us to keep at it - managing this relentless condition. It's true that living as spontaneously as others isn't possible, nevertheless opportunities for living in the 'now' continue, as long as we are mindful. Perhaps a moment devoted to 'diabeeting' can be as valid a moment as any other in the day. [/QUOTE]
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