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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JosieMcGreal" data-source="post: 2124200" data-attributes="member: 508769"><p>I'm still new to being a Type 1 Diabetic, I got diagnosed in May this year. I've always struggled with my mental health since I was diagnosed with OCD and anxiety when I was 7. Leading up to my T1 diagnosis my mental health got worse and now I find I seem to have more bad anxious depression periods than I do good. Is this what other diabetics find too? I go through periods where I feel fine and really open about talking about being T1 but then I quickly turn to being really anxious about it and really angry and upset. Is this something that most diabetics go through? I've started running again to try and help with the mental health side of things. I have a young Family so I'm trying to stay as strong and positive as I can be but sometimes it's hard and it really hits me that I am Diabetic. I'm trying to find different stress coping mechanisms as I've noticed when my anger and stress flares up so do my levels. I'm still in the honeymoon stage too so not sure if things will get worse once that's over or not? I just find myself getting angry with people when they complain to me about issues that aren't really a big deal but when I try express my feelings with this it just seems to get brushed aside! I feel I've maybe talked about it too much and maybe I'm annoying people? But it's such a huge thing to get your head! The positive thing with this is I do actually feel more healthy than I have done in a long time as I am working out more and eating better now. On paper I am doing well with my T1 but mentally still is a bit of a struggle and I have started going back counselling too which I think helps a lot.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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