Managing type 2 diabetes can feel like a full-time job. And, like many demanding roles, it can lead to burnout that makes it hard to stay on track. While diabetes burnout is typical, I know there are some ways to recover from it.
So, how do you deal with it?
Well being diagnosed decades now and suffered long before diagnosis I look back every so often through the years and pull from my best steady treatment and how it was achieved and allowed a steady healthy years. I emulate those things if my body can.
Now I'm older I hv other health problems that are not directly diabetes caused. They also deserve the same attention as my diabetes care. So I prioritise my diabetes care to ensure my other health problems don't suffer even more.
In fact I hv a few health problems and boy collectively they are truly exhausting but...... I carry on. I carry on taking all my meds, I carry on going to or listening to my hospital appointments and I carry on trying to stay upbeat and an attentive listener to my families needs.
I research as much as possible and listen to similar sufferers. All experience worth alot to me.
This forum is one of the best, if not the best for bringing similar people together. Listeners.
I'm in contact with e-friends in all my health conditions via social media closed sites etc. I find all their opinions valuable. Even those who disagree with my outlook. I'm fair but always make my own mind up. After all I'm the expert in how my body is making me feel or affecting my walking ability. Oh and my thinking ability too.
I hv mini burnouts and big whoppers. Luckily for me the NHS have been there and now since I live in the same area for more than 7 years. Medical intervention has saved my life. A few times.
Burnout can be a mental status but also a medically one.
I'm looking for help with my mobility and boy I just want to be able to skip with my 8yr old son and also old friends again !!!
Boy did I take it for granted. I was hugely mobile in pregnancy 9yrs ago and in moving house twice thereafter. I'm not being unreasonable to be back like that as I'm not old yet.