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i was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes last june. im on oral meds. ive had complications with meds, had them changed 3 times. ive also got IBS which makes eating a challenge. i feel extremely depressed right now, not really wanting to eat much, im off work too. im just not coping too well
 
ive suffered with depression on and off for yhears, but i just feel myself getting worse because im stressing so much over what foods to eat and im worrying about my job too
 
Hi I'm on depression tablets just nw 40mg in the morning but feel like I'm going dwn hill again lost it totally last nite with my hubby over nothing so it looks like another visit 2 the docs again :(


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No idea visitoef1 but I find that I get snappy when I have high blood sugar and I become extremely lazy and placid when low.

Maybe it's just your thing?
 
I'm exactly the same took my anger out on my fridge this afternoon and by the time I was finished the pain in my neck and shoulders was unbelievable and my bg was 8.9 can't get any lower than that


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I am type 2, diagnosed around 2003, never suffered depression in my life, married and divorced 3 times, and thought that would start to get me down, but touch wood, (am touching my head) depression doesn't and hasn't affected me!

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Lol no just cleaned it all out yeah I think it helps when u talk 2 someone that feels the same way sometimes I'm realy angry other times I just sit and cry for no reason but just the last couple of wks I've been so angry it's not real


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No lol ur not the only crazy one out there I no exactly what ur saying and feeling its so sad that we have 2 go thro all this it's bad enough being diabetic let alone everything else that comes with it


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I was a bar maid for 7 yrs I'm 46 but had 2 go in 2 hosp for a hysterectomy in 2007 had complications then my mum died of cancer jan 2008 and its just been dwn hill from there for me


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Hi it's strange. What is it about today? I have had depression on and off for years well before I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, 22 months ago, but today I woke up with the overwhelming feeling of why carry on? Can I face this constant testing and injecting for much longer? I feel all my freedom has been taken away. I read about the lack of A&E facilities in my local hospital and know about the dire situation in the NHS in general and I have panic attacks about needing to go into hospital. I had a bad experience in hospital when I was first diagnosed as I had DKA. At the moment I'm not feeling any positives. Thank goodness for this site
 
coco4 said:
Hi it's strange. What is it about today? I have had depression on and off for years well before I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, 22 months ago, but today I woke up with the overwhelming feeling of why carry on? Can I face this constant testing and injecting for much longer? I feel all my freedom has been taken away. I read about the lack of A&E facilities in my local hospital and know about the dire situation in the NHS in general and I have panic attacks about needing to go into hospital. I had a bad experience in hospital when I was first diagnosed as I had DKA. At the moment I'm not feeling any positives. Thank goodness for this site
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It is strange.
For a whole week i feel content and coping well. Then wake up one morning and the world is overwhelming, i just cannot cope.
There never seems to be a real reason, just a state of mind.
Other days something big and scary happens and I cope like a trooper.

If anyone has an answer would love to hear it :)
 
I really wish I could answer that for you.

I have suffered what I have heard called "Diabetic Blues" by a doctor once for many years. I wake up some mornings and wonder why me? Why was I born with it? I have had diabetes since birth and really don't know anything else so I can only imagine what it must be like for people to be "normal" one day and diabetic the next. Please don't think I used the term normal as derogatorily.

I do get absolutely fed up having to stab fingers and inject every day - can I get over this..... not really. My way of coping is to disappear away into the game of World of Warcraft and kill some characters and before long I have forgotten what I was feeling bad about.

Unfortunately back in 2004 I went through a terrible family split where I no longer talk to or consider myself as having parents or a brother or sister. I became clinically depressed and have ended up on the max dose of medication for this. I have really good days as you mentioned then I have bad days. I attended a counselor through a free company called RAMH - don't know if this is UK wide or just Glasgow based but that really helped me a lot. Perhaps that's something to consider. The sessions are very daunting to begin with bt after a few weeks I actually realised that things aren't always as bad as what you make them out to be. If you don't have RAMH then ask your GP for advice or their local counselors - they should have a list

Hope that helps a little :)
 
Bad day today but I know why. A combination of things which probably I would deal with alone but too much together.

My GUCH specialist has retired and now I have to just attend a normAL CARDIAC CLINIC.I am sure he will get to know what we need but last weeks appointment was not hopeful [kept telling me how the cuts and work pressure basically wrote me off]. Then my mental health team convinced me I could go down a stage and said I had to be signed off before this could happen, so they discharged me but the lower stage will not accept me [say I am too ill] so now I have NO ONE. Then yesterday got my final payment of income support so now have real money worries [even worse than the last few years] Tried to talk to someone from jobcentre who said because I am not fit for work I can get nothing.

I know there may be ways around all this but lost my fight today

Sorry to moan but at least you don't have to watch my tears
 
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