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<blockquote data-quote="Hoping4Cure" data-source="post: 1845081" data-attributes="member: 393050"><p>It's clear to me now, reading comments here and elsewhere, that there is such a thing as a <strong>Type 1 Diabetes "Stockholm Syndrome"</strong>.</p><p></p><p>As if people couldn't realize without having such an albatross on their neck that adding more troubles like alcoholism or obesity or poor diet isn't a good idea. Sorry for the triple negatives. What I mean is, you don't have to wait until you get a life-threatening disease until you adopt a healthy life-style and take responsibility for the choices you make.</p><p></p><p>You're <strong>supposed</strong> to eat healthy and exercise! It's for the good of <strong>your own body</strong>. Why is is necessary for someone to put a gun to your head before you decide to do what's right?</p><p></p><p>For the love of all that's holy on this planet, I cannot understand this mentality. A complete lack of perspective. I would have achieved far more in life (more than I have, which is quite a bit better than most people I know) had I not been cursed with this disease. I could've been an astronaut, but no.</p><p></p><p>I can't speak for type 2s (nor will I, ever again), but type 1 diabetes isn't a gift, it's a curse. And anyone who says otherwise, to my mind, is believing a lie created by their own mind as a rationalization to make sense of it. It's the "Just World Fallacy", applied to yourself. You got type 1 for a <strong>good reason, </strong>to make you <strong>better </strong>than you were. It's a delusion borne of a breakdown of reasoning.</p><p></p><p>One could easily pick up a book or read a study or watch a youtube video on how to adopt a healthy lifestyle, and many millions upon millions of non-diabetics indeed do so, every day. Taking care of yourself is not worthy of some sort of trophy, it's just basic responsibility as an adult for the condition of your existence.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hoping4Cure, post: 1845081, member: 393050"] It's clear to me now, reading comments here and elsewhere, that there is such a thing as a [B]Type 1 Diabetes "Stockholm Syndrome"[/B]. As if people couldn't realize without having such an albatross on their neck that adding more troubles like alcoholism or obesity or poor diet isn't a good idea. Sorry for the triple negatives. What I mean is, you don't have to wait until you get a life-threatening disease until you adopt a healthy life-style and take responsibility for the choices you make. You're [B]supposed[/B] to eat healthy and exercise! It's for the good of [B]your own body[/B]. Why is is necessary for someone to put a gun to your head before you decide to do what's right? For the love of all that's holy on this planet, I cannot understand this mentality. A complete lack of perspective. I would have achieved far more in life (more than I have, which is quite a bit better than most people I know) had I not been cursed with this disease. I could've been an astronaut, but no. I can't speak for type 2s (nor will I, ever again), but type 1 diabetes isn't a gift, it's a curse. And anyone who says otherwise, to my mind, is believing a lie created by their own mind as a rationalization to make sense of it. It's the "Just World Fallacy", applied to yourself. You got type 1 for a [B]good reason, [/B]to make you [B]better [/B]than you were. It's a delusion borne of a breakdown of reasoning. One could easily pick up a book or read a study or watch a youtube video on how to adopt a healthy lifestyle, and many millions upon millions of non-diabetics indeed do so, every day. Taking care of yourself is not worthy of some sort of trophy, it's just basic responsibility as an adult for the condition of your existence. [/QUOTE]
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