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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Unbeliever" data-source="post: 269002" data-attributes="member: 30851">Yes of course, Phoenix, just because  I don't think it doesn't work for me  doesn't mean that some of it is not  good advice.We ARE all different and people go through diffeerent phases.  It might be of assistance to the newly diagnosed  trying to come to terms wih i as some do very successfully.No many of us don't show our feeligs openly . I can empathise with Helena babe who feels just the same now as she did in the begining and I think this is different  to the feelings of the newly diagnosed.  I suppose it is down to which aspects of having the  condition you find most unacceptable.   This is where the assumptions kick in .  Just as, when my Nurse wanted to put me on insulin she could not accept that the injections were the least of my worries. I  really believe that it should be just as acceptable to  talk about the depression that accompanies this condition as the physical symptome.  Never mind siff upper lip and  not wallowing it or frightening newbies.Perhaps if people felt able to  talk about the emotional side of things more openly  then Helenababe might not have felt that she was  alone and "different".</blockquote>