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<blockquote data-quote="AllieRainbow" data-source="post: 1968306" data-attributes="member: 473025"><p>Welcome to the forum [USER=182290]@kate_88[/USER] you are not alone!</p><p></p><p>T2 can be hard to deal with emotionally, but most, if not all, people on here will have a lot of insight into how you are feeling, and will have probably felt like that themselves at times.</p><p></p><p>I have been diagnosed around 9 months and I am still getting to grips with how I feel about it - it varies from day to day. I certainly know all about the stages of grief now - anger, denial, acceptance, depression etc, sometimes all in the same day.</p><p></p><p>There should be no social stigma attached to Diabetes - from what I have read it is something that takes many years to develop, and people who are overweight T2's are very probably overweight because of the insulin resistance that is part of the process of diabetes developing. I can look back on my life and see times of enormous stress, and medication I was on that I believe started the ball rolling in the first place. Isn't hindsight great...</p><p></p><p>I never liked going to the doctor's due to being overweight and feeling that any issues I had would be written off as caused exclusively by my "lifestyle choices" - it is quite a relief to see that there were hormonal and chemical reasons why I turned from an extremely skinny teenager into a morbidly obese adult after many years of eating the wrong kinds of foods and not doing enough exercise. </p><p></p><p>Eventually realising I had diabetes (self diagnosed - if only they did HbA1c tests as a routine every year...) made me understand how what we eat affects the way we feel both physically and mentally, and our overall health in many different ways. I am still finding out how to eat to be healthy and get the weight off, and hopefully put this disease into remission permanently.</p><p></p><p>It can be scary, but you are not alone and this forum has been a real lifesaver for me, reading about other people's experiences and feelings, and getting so much support and encouragement.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AllieRainbow, post: 1968306, member: 473025"] Welcome to the forum [USER=182290]@kate_88[/USER] you are not alone! T2 can be hard to deal with emotionally, but most, if not all, people on here will have a lot of insight into how you are feeling, and will have probably felt like that themselves at times. I have been diagnosed around 9 months and I am still getting to grips with how I feel about it - it varies from day to day. I certainly know all about the stages of grief now - anger, denial, acceptance, depression etc, sometimes all in the same day. There should be no social stigma attached to Diabetes - from what I have read it is something that takes many years to develop, and people who are overweight T2's are very probably overweight because of the insulin resistance that is part of the process of diabetes developing. I can look back on my life and see times of enormous stress, and medication I was on that I believe started the ball rolling in the first place. Isn't hindsight great... I never liked going to the doctor's due to being overweight and feeling that any issues I had would be written off as caused exclusively by my "lifestyle choices" - it is quite a relief to see that there were hormonal and chemical reasons why I turned from an extremely skinny teenager into a morbidly obese adult after many years of eating the wrong kinds of foods and not doing enough exercise. Eventually realising I had diabetes (self diagnosed - if only they did HbA1c tests as a routine every year...) made me understand how what we eat affects the way we feel both physically and mentally, and our overall health in many different ways. I am still finding out how to eat to be healthy and get the weight off, and hopefully put this disease into remission permanently. It can be scary, but you are not alone and this forum has been a real lifesaver for me, reading about other people's experiences and feelings, and getting so much support and encouragement. [/QUOTE]
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