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<blockquote data-quote="curly" data-source="post: 1569290" data-attributes="member: 12306"><p>Thanks for your response, you are entirely right. I've been everywhere it's possible to be in the last 14 years, tried everything there is to try (clearly not hard enough) and I believe it has to be me that turns it around. The solution is as simple and as hard as do not put that stuff in your mouth.</p><p></p><p>What you are saying about switching focus to how I perceive diabetes is interesting - thanks. I've not really thought about it, as you just get on with it from the minute you are diagnosed, don't you? There's no time to go away and have a think and get used to the idea and then come back to start dealing with it. But, now I do think about it, I hate it. I hate everything about it and I feel completely lonely and isolated with it. There is no-one in my life who has any idea about the ins and outs of it. Even my parents are completely ignorant. For example, if I have a hypo when I'm with them and mention it they either completely ignore it and carry on conversation as if nothing's happening, try to get me to take insulin, or when I say it's not a question of insulin it's about needing sugar they'll try to make me eat celery/lettuce or something similar because sugar is 'bad for me'. Then at work they're at the opposite end of the spectrum and start panicking and talking about going home whenever I happen to get my glucose meter out or drink a bit more than usual. It all drives me crazy.</p><p></p><p>The irony is that I know exactly how to manage my blood sugar and don't find it that hard to get consistently good levels when I'm eating properly. But I just can't go for long enough without severe bingeing and purging episodes to maintain. I'm constantly in a state of recovery from the last super binge and just as I start to get better I head straight into the next one. The binges will last anything from 1 day to a couple of weeks straight. I'm bingeing so much currently that I'm too exhausted to do anything but drag myself to work to keep a roof over my head, so no exercise which also does help enormously.</p><p></p><p>Perhaps if I could view my diabetes more positively, as you are doing, I might have more success. I think there's something in that. Maybe I am rebelling against it because it causes me so much anger. I realise this must all sound completely pathetic to those of you are coping better, and like I just need to get a grip and sort myself out (which I do), but somehow it's not as easy as that. I don't know why.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="curly, post: 1569290, member: 12306"] Thanks for your response, you are entirely right. I've been everywhere it's possible to be in the last 14 years, tried everything there is to try (clearly not hard enough) and I believe it has to be me that turns it around. The solution is as simple and as hard as do not put that stuff in your mouth. What you are saying about switching focus to how I perceive diabetes is interesting - thanks. I've not really thought about it, as you just get on with it from the minute you are diagnosed, don't you? There's no time to go away and have a think and get used to the idea and then come back to start dealing with it. But, now I do think about it, I hate it. I hate everything about it and I feel completely lonely and isolated with it. There is no-one in my life who has any idea about the ins and outs of it. Even my parents are completely ignorant. For example, if I have a hypo when I'm with them and mention it they either completely ignore it and carry on conversation as if nothing's happening, try to get me to take insulin, or when I say it's not a question of insulin it's about needing sugar they'll try to make me eat celery/lettuce or something similar because sugar is 'bad for me'. Then at work they're at the opposite end of the spectrum and start panicking and talking about going home whenever I happen to get my glucose meter out or drink a bit more than usual. It all drives me crazy. The irony is that I know exactly how to manage my blood sugar and don't find it that hard to get consistently good levels when I'm eating properly. But I just can't go for long enough without severe bingeing and purging episodes to maintain. I'm constantly in a state of recovery from the last super binge and just as I start to get better I head straight into the next one. The binges will last anything from 1 day to a couple of weeks straight. I'm bingeing so much currently that I'm too exhausted to do anything but drag myself to work to keep a roof over my head, so no exercise which also does help enormously. Perhaps if I could view my diabetes more positively, as you are doing, I might have more success. I think there's something in that. Maybe I am rebelling against it because it causes me so much anger. I realise this must all sound completely pathetic to those of you are coping better, and like I just need to get a grip and sort myself out (which I do), but somehow it's not as easy as that. I don't know why. [/QUOTE]
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