Benefits??

[NickP 2]

I am 61 years old and I have had insulin controlled type 1 diabetes for 42 years, burnout, burnout, burnout! Is there no financial help available to us long term sufferers? If I work full time I am exhausted and plagued by hypos, this reflects on my work performance and in today's work environment doesn't go down well with the bosses. I have researched a little on government websites but they seem intent from barring type 1 from any benefits selection process probably due to there being so many of us. Anyone have any advice? Oh yes I have been treated for depression for many years now, the drugs help me put a brave face on things but underneath I am just so tired of it. . . I suppose the only solution is to "pop off?"

 

[bamba]

https://www.diabetes.co.uk/diabetes-and-benefits.html

 

[Tony337]

Hi Nick
Welcome to the forum.
Its hard to weigh in with advice if you are feeling that grim you are contemplating "popping off"
44 years a type 1 here but I'm 49 and have always worked and have a wife and son.
Yes I have suffered mentally and yes I get tired and worn out by the end of the week and it has got harder as I've got older but but but my wife and son would be devastated if I followed your train of thought and took my own life.
Do you have family/loved ones?
I look at work as a routine which helps my diabetes control because I don't exercise but I'm as fit as a butchers dog.
In an evening during the dark nights of winter I struggle a little mentally as I can't sit down and watch TV so I make things for charity using wood and tin cans and the like.
This might not be for you but I hope you take my point and this Christmas I raised just over £1000 for the blood bikes of Manchester charity and this made me feel as though I had done some good and it improved my head no end.
Please don't think I'm showing off I'm just trying to point out some of the positives in life through my own experiences of long term diabetes.

Please talk to your GP or someone professional and don't suffer alone and if theres anything at all I can do just ask.

All the best

Tony