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People that can't listen to other people's opinions.
People that can't say sorry.
DD - I'm sorry you had such a bad experience, and I'm pleased you are now fine.
My comment relates to your anorexic friend. I'm sorry, but whilst she may be non-diabetic, she is certainly not operating in the usual non-diabetic space. She isn't someone who is a bit hungry because they've exercised hard or missed a meal and are therefore extremely hungry. She is someone who has systematically starved herself to a point of extreme malnutrition. He mind, sadly, will have been messed up by far more than her bloods running very low. She will have actually been or been on the verge of multiple major organ failure. That doesn't happen without impact on her mental capacity.
Undoubtedly non-diabetics lose some mental capacity as theygo very low. They say things like, "blimey, I need to eat. I can't concentrate, I'm so hungry".
And, of course, there are non-diabetics, perhaps even those with reactive hypoglycaemia who are regularly low. How they react will also differ from diabetics and normoglaycaemics.
DD - your anorexic friend has a long battle ahead of her to come back to living a relaxed and normal life, and to rebuild her relationships with food, and other people. Thankfully most anorexics recover to function well within society. Some have long term impacts, and some manage to shake it off altogether. I really do hope she is in the latter group. It must be an horrific time for her, her family and her wider circle.
But, she isn't your standard non-diabetic, by any stretch of the imagination.
Yes I agree all the way through with everything. Amazing that her dad who is a fit, builder gets levels in the lower 3's too.
She has a huge way to go. Many of the girls in the unit have been in before. When she says about hating the fat (still a size 6) I do state that her internal organs and brain and bones are repairing themselves before any fat goes on but even at a size 6 she hates her body. I personally think from speaking a lot to her that she will be in the revolving door with this disease. I have pointed out to her about her texts etc so she can physically see how bad her brain was working compared to now...so she can perhaps accept that her brain is repairing itself 1st from the nutrients. She has gained 2 stone from the carb laden diet so far but whether she will sink over christmas when allowed out is going to be different... Very hard getting her past the causation of the anorexia, this is just not happening...
Her dad with low levels did not realise anything about needing food or getting any signals to eat at times of feeling drunk. It was me telling him he needed to that he took notice of...