Mood swings!

[Annon56]

My partner says some awful things to me in the most of a hypo it a hyper and their words are hurtful and upsetting. I don’t feel like I can express any feelings because I’m not the ones with diabetes and nothing I have to deal with can be any worse than that. I’m very understanding, 9/10 I take the sh!t and forget about it, sometimes I get an apology, sometimes I don’t. I often worry am I being a pushover or can they truly not control what comes out their mouth?

 

[Duncan Mackay]

My partner says some awful things to me in the most of a hypo it a hyper and their words are hurtful and upsetting. I don’t feel like I can express any feelings because I’m not the ones with diabetes and nothing I have to deal with can be any worse than that. I’m very understanding, 9/10 I take the sh!t and forget about it, sometimes I get an apology, sometimes I don’t. I often worry am I being a pushover or can they truly not control what comes out their mouth?

Being on the receiving end of unjustified verbal abuse is crushing.

Having had hypos and been hyperglycaemic (40 mmol/l) without hitting out at my partner, I don't believe that these conditions can ever be used to justify bad behaviour to loved ones. No excuse saying that they have no control over what is said. Your partner needs to appreciate that you are also adversely affected by their diabetes and so should modify their behaviour towards you accordingly.

 

[Zhnyaka]

Do you think he says bad things to his boss when he has hypoglycemia? No, because we are well aware of what we are doing. Although the level of bg does affect mood, you can simply tell your partner, "please leave me for 15 minutes while my bg returns to normal."

I don’t feel like I can express any feelings because I’m not the ones with diabetes and nothing I have to deal with can be any worse than that.

I think any diabetic will say that there were things in his life unrelated to diabetes that were worse than diabetes. This disease is sometimes annoying, but in general diabetes is just diabetes, not something really terrible and definitely not the worst thing in life.

I want to say that if a person allows himself to snap at you, then the reason is not diabetes, but that he does not appreciate you enough to control himself and just covers his actions with a diagnosis.

 

[Jaylee]

It’s kinda strange how some hypos release “demons” in people?

I had a nonsensical argumentative customer 30 years ago. (He was clearly confused.)
I asked him if he was drunk. “Certainly not I’m a diabetic.” Ascertaining he was hypo he then lunged across my counter & grabbed me by the throat.
I fought him off slamming the guy against a partition wall grabbing a Mars bar from the merch to the side of the counter & hitting him squarely on the forehead with it. He promptly left..

He came back an hour later looking sheepish & apologised.
We shock hands…

Personally when I go low with what feels like the life force draining from me..
The last thing I’d want to spend dwindling energy on is a tantrum.

 

[Nicola M]

I don't necessarily say unkind things when I'm hypo/hyper, but I definitely get shorter with my replies. I'll usually be a little more "rude", for example, I'll tell someone in my way to move or hurry up. Growing up, my mum took the brunt of my shortness, and she always knew from how I was behaving that I was either hypo/hyper. I do think there's definitely a switch in my brain when I am, and I just don't have a patience filter anymore, I always know afterwards though that I have been ruder than usual and always apologise as I know it's not nice to be on the receiving end of someone telling you to move etc and I know I don't truly mean to act in that way.