Hi,
I've historically made comments on the forum regarding the "cautionary T1 tales" my mum brought back from work nearly 40 years ago when I was a youngster. (She had a job at the local hospital.)
A way of keeping me on track. (Different era.) She told of a tale of a young girl a little older than myself, underweight, high BG, eye issues & refusing to take her insulin.. Sounds like Diabolimia?
There was nothing known back then, I only learned the term some 25 years later when it "clicked" watching a documentary on the subject regarding a woman in her 20s with type one which loosely coined the term with links to mental health.
So, not forgetting the cautionary tale of the young girl in my local hospital 4 decades ago for a moment.
It was just assumed by all that were treating her at the time, (1980/81?) she was a "naughty girl" who just needed to get tighter control of her diabetes, inject & eat.
To be fair at that time the specialists at the same hospital I was treated, made me feel like I was at a "rehab" out patients..
Boy, am I glad the NHS are starting to wake up..