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<blockquote data-quote="Circuspony" data-source="post: 2202130" data-attributes="member: 432241"><p>I was diagnosed at 43 and found anonymous forums (this one) hugely helpful, whereas people in real life tended to fall into 3 categories:</p><p></p><p>1 - i know someone with diabetes and they are fine so don't know what your problem is </p><p>2 - at least it isn't cancer (not hugely helpful at the time)</p><p>3 - major panic. Telling me what I should or should not be eating / doing etc</p><p></p><p>None of the above was useful! Supportive can just mean asking how someone is, but not telling them to do x,y,z. Perhaps email the link to this forum, say it looks useful and then back off?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Circuspony, post: 2202130, member: 432241"] I was diagnosed at 43 and found anonymous forums (this one) hugely helpful, whereas people in real life tended to fall into 3 categories: 1 - i know someone with diabetes and they are fine so don't know what your problem is 2 - at least it isn't cancer (not hugely helpful at the time) 3 - major panic. Telling me what I should or should not be eating / doing etc None of the above was useful! Supportive can just mean asking how someone is, but not telling them to do x,y,z. Perhaps email the link to this forum, say it looks useful and then back off? [/QUOTE]
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