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Diabetes Distress article and measuring scales

Alexandra100

Alexandra100

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Prediabetes
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https://forum.tudiabetes.org/t/what-is-diabetes-distress/75183

PS I have now completed the form to get a Diabetes Distress Score. This is free of charge.There is a suggestion in the preceding sections that you have to pay for it, but this is not the case. Your score is not saved after you leave the site, but you can print it off and it is suggested that if you get a high score you try it again in a few weeks.
 
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After doing the test does the piece offer advice or guidance on how to cope with DD? I did not do the test as I do not feel that I need yet another number to focus on and frankly I have no need of a scale that informs me that I am worried/stressed/depressed about aspects of my condition - I am aware of these feelings anyway.
 
Guzzler said:
After doing the test does the piece offer advice or guidance on how to cope with DD? I did not do the test as I do not feel that I need yet another number to focus on and frankly I have no need of a scale that informs me that I am worried/stressed/depressed about aspects of my condition - I am aware of these feelings anyway.
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It offers brief guidance. Perhaps it would be most valuable for someone who was in denial as to how distressed they were. Or, in the case of repeat tests, the feedback might be good for someone who had resolved to take action to reduce their distress. I just love doing this kind of thing, it cheers me up.
 
Alexandra100 said:
It offers brief guidance. Perhaps it would be most valuable for someone who was in denial as to how distressed they were. Or, in the case of repeat tests, the feedback might be good for someone who had resolved to take action to reduce their distress. I just love doing this kind of thing, it cheers me up.
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No doubt it might be useful to some people. Not me, if just one more person tells me that Mindfulness would bring serentity I shall scream. I'm not sure that someone in true denial would be searching out such info and as for stress, arn't we hard wired for that? I have found that talking with people who totally get what it is like to get the news, provide information and support if things wobble and who are genuinely pleased when things go well for others in the same position has a value beyond measure (yes, even with a scale). Hence the value that I place on this forum and others like it.
 
I doubt those in denial would do the "quiz"
 
Hello @Alexandra100 As you have not been given a Diabetes diagnosis or even a type 1 diagnosis I am curious to ask why you feel it necessary to complete this ?
 
Juicyj said:
Hello @Alexandra100 As you have not been given a Diabetes diagnosis or even a type 1 diagnosis I am curious to ask why you feel it necessary to complete this ?
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Hello Juicy, sorry, but I haven't time or energy to reply fully to your query right now. Can we leave it for the moment that although I don't meet your criteria for pre-diabetes or full diabetes, I do indeed, however misguidedly, suffer from diabetes distress.
 
Guzzler said:
if just one more person tells me that Mindfulness would bring serentity I shall scream
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Me too, but anyone can sure fire get my goat even worse by exhorting me to keep a "gratefulness" diary. Be re-assured, no recommendations here to mindfulness but rather one to seek out more sympathetic people who understand about diabetes. Unfortunately they didn't link to this Forum (or to any diabetic focussed organisation).
 
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