I guess I'm pretty laid back and don't find diabetes makes me angry even when my BG is misbehaving in either direction. Although, lack of patience is sometimes an indication my BG is getting low.
I am probably weird but I see diabetes as something which I can do nothing about so, with my logical, engineering brain, I don't see anything to get angry about. My diabetes emotions tend to be around the diagnosis: I am happy/grateful that I was diagnosed because I would not be here otherwise. ... It's the happy/grateful bit that probably makes me weird.
It tends to be people that make me angry. It's usually their laziness or negative defeatist attitude that frustrate me. I am not talking about people with or talking about diabetes ... I mean all people.
Like @kev-w I find exercise calms me down - something about giving an outlet for the anger.
Along the same lines, I also find bread making therapeutic - as well as creating something at the end of it, I sometimes picture the face of someone particularly annoying in the dough as I vigorously knead it.
No it isn't. It's just "advice" from people who will say literally anything to make themselves feel better, no matter how unconvincing or just stupid. If they actually MENTIONED those caveats it might mean something but they don't. This is just a bunch of people trying to persuade themselves that something is lovely when it isn't. Sorry but I can't maintain that sort of cognitive dissonance. Nothing makes me angry about this more than YOU GUYS.
Couldn't you get an insulin pen with a smilie face on?
Sorry, sarcasm being the lowest form of wit and all that jazz... But no, I'd say it's a bunch of people trying to make the best of what they've got, and it's not so much the saying of things to make ourselves feel better, but the DOING of things to achieve that.
Look at it another way, if this was a 100 years ago you'd be dead, same as each and every t1 on this board so it could be worse, a whole lot worse in fact.
Compromise is a tool you've yet to find.
It can feel a bit like that at times! I think I am more resigned to T1D than I am angry about it. I feel fortunate that it happened late in life because I do think it would have stopped me doing some of the things I have done with my life. Positive mental attitude might get you a long way, but if I'd had T1D in the middle of the Namib desert with sunstroke it would likely have been life threatening (although I doubt I would have got the insurance to do that particular trip) rather than just making me as poorly as I was at the time. I get the anger Susie feels at having her freedom curtailed by this disease. No, there is nothing we can do but accept it and get on with life but that doesn't mean you can't feel a bit p'd off that its happened.Careful you're not allowed to say that round here, only a permanent attitude of forced happiness is allowable.
How are you doing today @mountaintom? My pred text wanted you to be mountaintop - hope it’s truly predictive and you’re feeling on top of the world. Like many of yours, this thread’s really taken off - does it help?
No it isn't. It's just "advice" from people who will say literally anything to make themselves feel better, no matter how unconvincing or just stupid. If they actually MENTIONED those caveats it might mean something but they don't. This is just a bunch of people trying to persuade themselves that something is lovely when it isn't. Sorry but I can't maintain that sort of cognitive dissonance. Nothing makes me angry about this more than YOU GUYS.
Solution........GOODBYE.This is just a bunch of people trying to persuade themselves that something is lovely when it isn't. Sorry but I can't maintain that sort of cognitive dissonance. Nothing makes me angry about this more than YOU GUYS.
Susie this is a forum where people share their feeling some are good and some are bad but everyone is able to express themselves. I know you hate diabetes and feel your life is over and i am not going to tell you that you are wrong because i know that diabetes will kill me in the end or something to do with it will, did i enjoy having diabetes when i was 10 no, when i was 20 no, 30 no and i will never like it. I hate seeing little children with diabetes as i know even with the progress they made with research that life will be hard for them as i know life is hard for you. I am already on with my second pancreas and third kidney and i only got them because a 23 year old man died and i got his organs, who do i hate for this diabetes and myself. Why myself because i have to live with the thought of someones son, brother, sister, husband or even father died for me to live. I sent a letter 10 months after the transplant it was the hardest thing i have ever done it took me 2 weeks to do it as i kept breaking down in tears, what can you say that will make up for there loss. Since the 17th of April 2015 i have lived with the guilt, anger and frustration, yes i do not have injections anymore but i would take injecting again if that lad could live. All i what to do is see my children grow up in the past 6 years they have gone through more things than most kids go through. They came to live with me when i seperated then their mother moved away, they were in tears when i went to hospital for my transplant both of us knowing that this might be the last time we saw each other and the many times i have had to come and see me in hospital. Yes i hate diabetes because of all the people that it effects, so i know you cannot be happy all the time. Even though i am not a diabetic at the minute my life is still being effected by diabetes that sometimes i want to scream, the 17th of April is my sons birthday and he will never forget his tenth birthdayCareful you're not allowed to say that round here, only a permanent attitude of forced happiness is allowable.
When my sugar level is low I know I am a nightmare to those around me. I get angry, impatient and will argue with anyone and usually everyone. Like many diabetics I am not even aware of it and the first sign is somebody telling me to test my blood. I'm told I always say no and that I am OK which keeps the argument going!
Bill
Susie this is a forum where people share their feeling some are good and some are bad but everyone is able to express themselves. I know you hate diabetes and feel your life is over and i am not going to tell you that you are wrong because i know that diabetes will kill me in the end or something to do with it will, did i enjoy having diabetes when i was 10 no, when i was 20 no, 30 no and i will never like it. I hate seeing little children with diabetes as i know even with the progress they made with research that life will be hard for them as i know life is hard for you. I am already on with my second pancreas and third kidney and i only got them because a 23 year old man died and i got his organs, who do i hate for this diabetes and myself. Why myself because i have to live with the thought of someones son, brother, sister, husband or even father died for me to live. I sent a letter 10 months after the transplant it was the hardest thing i have ever done it took me 2 weeks to do it as i kept breaking down in tears, what can you say that will make up for there loss. Since the 17th of April 2015 i have lived with the guilt, anger and frustration, yes i do not have injections anymore but i would take injecting again if that lad could live. All i what to do is see my children grow up in the past 6 years they have gone through more things than most kids go through. They came to live with me when i seperated then their mother moved away, they were in tears when i went to hospital for my transplant both of us knowing that this might be the last time we saw each other and the many times i have had to come and see me in hospital. Yes i hate diabetes because of all the people that it effects, so i know you cannot be happy all the time. Even though i am not a diabetic at the minute my life is still being effected by diabetes that sometimes i want to scream, the 17th of April is my sons birthday and he will never forget his tenth birthday
I can feel angry, but often I am more stroppy and think the person or persons are ganging up on me, feels like like an old teenager syndrome, also weepy. But my teenager is spot on by just looking at me, she knows a hypo and takes control and is certainly in charge, bless her <3
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