Cathn61may
Well-Known Member
- Messages
- 68
- Location
- Cardiff
- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
- Dislikes
- people who think they know it all
The timing of her going quiet/ less bubbly and her sister getting diagnosis may indicate a possible link between these events.Maybe I'm being overly cynical, but I wonder if there isn't some sibling rivalry going on here? She's been the diabetic "star" of the family for so long and suddenly she's no longer centre of attention? Maybe a ploy to bring the attention back to herself?
I went thru my teen rebellion in my twenties! I don't think anything you do will stop what we are thinking! If you put sanctions in then she will react and blame the diabetes even more. I am now paying the price for years of not listening and not caring about myself.I would like to ask those who went through the teen rebellion stage what would have changed things for you? Would sanctions have worked? eg. No injecting, no party/phone kind of thing. An American style "intervention"? Some mention backing off but if I do that we are up in the 30s just waiting for ketoacidosis to kick in. Talking, she won't have a conversation about diabetes with me and obviously hates me as I am the diabetes police. What would have made you go and see the diabetes psychologist?. I'm a desperate parent running out of options here but my child is only 15. I totally understand why she is doing this. I see all too well how hard her life is but there must be something I can do to help her.
Feel for you as a type 1 and mohter of a 15 year old girl who is rather quiet and sullen right now but fortunaley does not have diabetes.... It sounds as though the time of her stopping self care of her diabetes coincided with her sister's diagnosis and being transferred to the adult clinic? Perhaps she is feeling a little jealous of the attention that a new diagnosis brings whilst simultaneously being terrified of the adult responsibility of diabetes.No I think she needs to talk to someone but since being transferred to adult team she only sees consultant once a year and nurse only if daughter contacts her I have asked her again this afternoon about it again she threw her meter at me and is packing her bags to leave think I may of driven her away
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