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<blockquote data-quote="lucylocket61" data-source="post: 1665179" data-attributes="member: 41885"><p>I have read every one of the posts on this thread and havent seen anyone saying that the situation is great and you have no reason to be unhappy.</p><p></p><p>I have seen a great many posts acknowledging that it is difficult and life changing, but that a good quality of life is still possible within that framework of being a type 1 diabetic. The consensus seems to be that you have to work with your diabetes, and accept it, and get the best life experiences you can with the challenges it throws at you.</p><p></p><p>Over twenty years ago I had a serious injury which changed my life. It is still changing my life. I will never be the person i was before. I went through the stages of denial and grief and depression. Sometimes i still have to go through those stages, although they are less frequent and not as deep as they were initially. Life is difficult and i dont recognise myself in the person I am since my accident, compared to who i was and what I could do before. its hard. But it can be done, day by day. its a mindset.</p><p></p><p>I do urge you to get professional advice and help with adjusting to your new life. I am only a person on the internet, there are properly trained people out there who can help with your distress and difficulty in accepting your new life.</p><p></p><p>I was only 32 when my life changed forever. I have had, in the main, 20+ years of quality life since. Its not the same life i had before. I am not the same person as I was before. My opportunities and abilities are not the same as they were before. My future is not the same and my career ended that day. But happiness and contentment and adaption are possible for us all. I had some general counselling, and grief counselling, and therapy for a time afterwards, and occasionally I seek out and get more mental health help when i sink under with depression.</p><p></p><p>I do hope you are able to find some help, and able to maybe re-read some of the posts on here to see that there is a lot of positive, helpful stuff from people who have walked a similar path to you and wish to help.</p><p></p><p>You may well find, as I have, that the person you now are is better in many ways than the person you were. And you dont lose all of the old you, or even most of your pre-diagnosis self, as most of ourselves are inside our heads, regardless of what our bodies are or are not able to do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lucylocket61, post: 1665179, member: 41885"] I have read every one of the posts on this thread and havent seen anyone saying that the situation is great and you have no reason to be unhappy. I have seen a great many posts acknowledging that it is difficult and life changing, but that a good quality of life is still possible within that framework of being a type 1 diabetic. The consensus seems to be that you have to work with your diabetes, and accept it, and get the best life experiences you can with the challenges it throws at you. Over twenty years ago I had a serious injury which changed my life. It is still changing my life. I will never be the person i was before. I went through the stages of denial and grief and depression. Sometimes i still have to go through those stages, although they are less frequent and not as deep as they were initially. Life is difficult and i dont recognise myself in the person I am since my accident, compared to who i was and what I could do before. its hard. But it can be done, day by day. its a mindset. I do urge you to get professional advice and help with adjusting to your new life. I am only a person on the internet, there are properly trained people out there who can help with your distress and difficulty in accepting your new life. I was only 32 when my life changed forever. I have had, in the main, 20+ years of quality life since. Its not the same life i had before. I am not the same person as I was before. My opportunities and abilities are not the same as they were before. My future is not the same and my career ended that day. But happiness and contentment and adaption are possible for us all. I had some general counselling, and grief counselling, and therapy for a time afterwards, and occasionally I seek out and get more mental health help when i sink under with depression. I do hope you are able to find some help, and able to maybe re-read some of the posts on here to see that there is a lot of positive, helpful stuff from people who have walked a similar path to you and wish to help. You may well find, as I have, that the person you now are is better in many ways than the person you were. And you dont lose all of the old you, or even most of your pre-diagnosis self, as most of ourselves are inside our heads, regardless of what our bodies are or are not able to do. [/QUOTE]
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