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<blockquote data-quote="CathP" data-source="post: 2225817" data-attributes="member: 328992"><p>Hi, I’m so sorry your son is struggling.</p><p></p><p>My daughter is 9, dx at 4, and went through a phase last year of massively resenting diabetes and saying on numerous occasions ‘what’s the point of life’ and so on. It was heart breaking. For her, the issues were feeling restricted in what and when she could eat, diabetes taking too much of her time (us fiddling with her pump, calling her from playing for corrections etc) and us talking about diabetes a lot. We’ve worked really hard at giving her more freedom and relieving the burden of diabetes from the family as a whole. We built diy closed loop this time last year, and it’s given her dietary freedom, freedom to play out away from us, and no more fiddling about with her pump all the time...all controlled from her phone. The plus is as she’s so much happier she’s now actually engaged and wanting to manage a lot of the care herself.</p><p></p><p>Talk to him and find out what about diabetes is upsetting him the most. We obviously can’t take it from them, but there might be little things you can do to make it easier.</p><p></p><p>good luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CathP, post: 2225817, member: 328992"] Hi, I’m so sorry your son is struggling. My daughter is 9, dx at 4, and went through a phase last year of massively resenting diabetes and saying on numerous occasions ‘what’s the point of life’ and so on. It was heart breaking. For her, the issues were feeling restricted in what and when she could eat, diabetes taking too much of her time (us fiddling with her pump, calling her from playing for corrections etc) and us talking about diabetes a lot. We’ve worked really hard at giving her more freedom and relieving the burden of diabetes from the family as a whole. We built diy closed loop this time last year, and it’s given her dietary freedom, freedom to play out away from us, and no more fiddling about with her pump all the time...all controlled from her phone. The plus is as she’s so much happier she’s now actually engaged and wanting to manage a lot of the care herself. Talk to him and find out what about diabetes is upsetting him the most. We obviously can’t take it from them, but there might be little things you can do to make it easier. good luck. [/QUOTE]
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