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<blockquote data-quote="Rachy" data-source="post: 1485206" data-attributes="member: 37006"><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Hi Mark,</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I was diagnosed at 12 (now 26) and after years of battling against diabetes, I decided I couldn't go on the way I was going. Firstly with the social interaction, I am pretty certain that my diabetes diagnosis lead to my Social Anxiety Disorder. I completely shut down, lost touch with friends, didn't want to go out anywhere. 2 years ago I told my Doctor and was offered a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy course which helped a lot. I also now take 20mg of Citalopram (anti-depressant) a day which has been life changing and I am slowly being much more confident with social interactions. It's really hard to get out of 'that' place of feeling depressed and hopeless but it can be done. I also decided to start using a FreeStyle Libre as of today (I have just done a post about it) which will hopefully be a relief from constant finger tests. I'm hoping it will also make me finally focus on getting good control. I don't know where abouts you are but I live in Cheshire and last week I attended a 'Choices' course, which taught me about Carb Counting. It was good just to talk to other T1's in person as I have rarely had the opportunity to do this for the past 14 years.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I hope you start feeling better soon and please message me if you would like to talk. We will all have really bad days/months living with diabetes but hopefully you'll get to a point where you can kick its butt (most of the time)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rachy, post: 1485206, member: 37006"] [FONT=Arial]Hi Mark, I was diagnosed at 12 (now 26) and after years of battling against diabetes, I decided I couldn't go on the way I was going. Firstly with the social interaction, I am pretty certain that my diabetes diagnosis lead to my Social Anxiety Disorder. I completely shut down, lost touch with friends, didn't want to go out anywhere. 2 years ago I told my Doctor and was offered a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy course which helped a lot. I also now take 20mg of Citalopram (anti-depressant) a day which has been life changing and I am slowly being much more confident with social interactions. It's really hard to get out of 'that' place of feeling depressed and hopeless but it can be done. I also decided to start using a FreeStyle Libre as of today (I have just done a post about it) which will hopefully be a relief from constant finger tests. I'm hoping it will also make me finally focus on getting good control. I don't know where abouts you are but I live in Cheshire and last week I attended a 'Choices' course, which taught me about Carb Counting. It was good just to talk to other T1's in person as I have rarely had the opportunity to do this for the past 14 years. I hope you start feeling better soon and please message me if you would like to talk. We will all have really bad days/months living with diabetes but hopefully you'll get to a point where you can kick its butt (most of the time) :)[/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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