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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
I am Type 2 for 4 years now, and I have depression with my diabetes and I am starting to find out why, because there are sooooo many different suggestions on how to control sugars it makes your head spin. I am controlling mine by diet and excersise. No medications, but I tell ya it is very challenging and can be very stressful, but so can be on medications to control sugars, there's so many ones I've read so much on type 2 diabetes and it is a very complex disease, and now I know why. What can happen if you don't control it, and how to control it, managing stress which I am constantly under and most of it is out of my control but is effecting me anyways emotional and physically. You see my mom passed away a year ago quite suddenly, a close family member has a drug addiction and so on, I worry about him constantly, it's quite a burden. My mom was my support and I miss her sooooo much. No one in my family understands what it's like to be a diabetic and how stress can effect it. They don't seem to really try to be more supportive, I am right now going through pain in my ribs on left side which I have had for a few years and hurts more now, not really sure what it's from but I have been very tense lately, and very down, I'm on an antidepressant since diagnosis of diabetes but since mom passed it doesn't seem to work as good. I have been going to grieving counselling but when I come home I feel down cause I don't have the same support, my husband I guess thinks I should be fine now, since I don't cry as much but **** it still hurts, and I worry about my sugars they have changed a bit but still in good range, it causes me anxiety when I'm home alone, which I have with the depression. It's been a long 4 years of ups and downs. Some days I'm so tired I can't think at all. I don't sleep very good. In the very beginning when I was diagnosed my husband and family were very supportive now not so much. I was diagnosed in 2012 and I think we as diabetics need support for the rest of our lives, it's such a lonely disease I only know two ppl with it and they seem fine with it. I cried and cried when I was told I have it after finding out what it can do to you and how a person has to live. I lost over 40 pounds and ate good then after reality set in that I had this the depression set in. I was admitted to hospital I was so depressed, I was in hospital a few times cause I couldn't cope with it, has anyone experienced this? I still have the depression and seems on some days it's worse since mom passed. Yes I went through the denial stage too, I went to other ppl to see if I had it. I was very scared. I still get anxious especially when I am home by myself, scared if my sugars went low and nobody here. Shortly after I was diagnosed I had my gallbladder out to well I thought what next, and husband was stressed and not very available for me, I was a mess, but that is behind me but wished I had more ppl on my side and there for me instead I get your sugars are good what are you worried about. It's not like you have the flu and it goes away you have diabetes for the rest of your life and all the other **** that goes with it, timing out your meals, can't have this can't have that and everyone around you can eat whatever tthey want and so on. I feel ppl just don't get it. Have any of you experienced how others treat you about your diabetes and how do you deal with it and where do you get the support where your not judged or the stupid things people say.