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<blockquote data-quote="Maggie/Magpie" data-source="post: 1420719" data-attributes="member: 347792"><p>Hi and welcome [USER=194584]@christopher52[/USER], </p><p>Before I was diagnosed with diabetes last year I was experiencing a lot of cold sweats several times a day/night. I was eating a lot of carbs and sugars at the time as I'm a binge eater and one of my meds was making me ravenously hungry all the time. Menopause and everything obvious was ruled out. It was only when I was diagnosed and reduced the carbs and stopped sugar that the sweats stopped therefore the two must be related. </p><p></p><p>As for the diabetic nurses taking on counselling concerning depression, I feel its important that they have awareness training about depression and how/where to sign post their patients showing signs of depression and know about treatments. But unless they have a particular interest in the links between diabetes and depression and want to counsel in those fields and are happy to do the extra training then I feel counselling should be left with proper psychotherapists and counselors. People can spread themselves too thin and then not be particularly good at anything but think they are and then do more damage than good. Having had counseling from both with a person who is a cpn with counselling training and good intentions but are hopeless and two psychotherapist one in my opinion good and one bad, I'd take the psychotherapist every time. But like in every field there can be good and bad and some suit some personalities over others, or use different methods to suit different situations. At least a psychotherapist has many methods at their finger tips and use them every day, where as a diabetic nurse who dabbles in and out of the role as needed (and I mean no disrespect to them for many are excellent in their field) is not going to have the same knowledge base, as much experience or capability or be so up to date as some one doing it full time and as their specialist field. There's also the issue that those being counselled need to be in the right head space and receptive to the counselling for it to work in the first place. </p><p></p><p>Sorry for the long post and rant. At the end of the day I'm only one voice and I'm sure there will be many who disagree with me out there. But both side of these things need to be considered.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, [USER=194584]@christopher52[/USER], good luck with your diabetic journey. If you need to know anything just ask, were all here to help.</p><p>Maggie</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Maggie/Magpie, post: 1420719, member: 347792"] Hi and welcome [USER=194584]@christopher52[/USER], Before I was diagnosed with diabetes last year I was experiencing a lot of cold sweats several times a day/night. I was eating a lot of carbs and sugars at the time as I'm a binge eater and one of my meds was making me ravenously hungry all the time. Menopause and everything obvious was ruled out. It was only when I was diagnosed and reduced the carbs and stopped sugar that the sweats stopped therefore the two must be related. As for the diabetic nurses taking on counselling concerning depression, I feel its important that they have awareness training about depression and how/where to sign post their patients showing signs of depression and know about treatments. But unless they have a particular interest in the links between diabetes and depression and want to counsel in those fields and are happy to do the extra training then I feel counselling should be left with proper psychotherapists and counselors. People can spread themselves too thin and then not be particularly good at anything but think they are and then do more damage than good. Having had counseling from both with a person who is a cpn with counselling training and good intentions but are hopeless and two psychotherapist one in my opinion good and one bad, I'd take the psychotherapist every time. But like in every field there can be good and bad and some suit some personalities over others, or use different methods to suit different situations. At least a psychotherapist has many methods at their finger tips and use them every day, where as a diabetic nurse who dabbles in and out of the role as needed (and I mean no disrespect to them for many are excellent in their field) is not going to have the same knowledge base, as much experience or capability or be so up to date as some one doing it full time and as their specialist field. There's also the issue that those being counselled need to be in the right head space and receptive to the counselling for it to work in the first place. Sorry for the long post and rant. At the end of the day I'm only one voice and I'm sure there will be many who disagree with me out there. But both side of these things need to be considered. Anyway, [USER=194584]@christopher52[/USER], good luck with your diabetic journey. If you need to know anything just ask, were all here to help. Maggie [/QUOTE]
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