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<blockquote data-quote="Thundercat" data-source="post: 375709" data-attributes="member: 51047"><p>Sent from the <a href="http://www.diabetes.co.uk/app/?utm_source=sig&utm_medium=txt&utm_campaign=appsig" target="_blank">Diabetes Forum App</a></p><p>Hi Rochari. That was a really beautiful and very touching post. Thankfully for the most part attitudes have changed with regard to the fear factor, particularly for children. It is hard as an adult to overcome the vestiges of childhood emotions, even when we can clearly see as our adult selves that what we were told was wrong or misguided. One of the most damaging things ever said to me by a doctor was, when first diagnosed at 12, that there was no reason for me to feel any different to anyone else. It was stated arrogantly and as an inarguable fact. For many maybe it would have had no impact but when I did start to feel different to my friends I thought it was just me amd that there was something wrong with me. Thus began a long long phase of depression and isolation and a quiet rebellion against diabetes. Thankfully I managed to move through it but it was a slow and hard process that affected large swathes of my life. We can overcome. No matter how difficult the journey it is one worth making. Antidepressants, counselling, meditation, exercise, talking, this fantastic forum of support- if we are prepared to brave it we can overcome. Sorry for going on so much but your post really touched something in me. Thank you for making me remember that no matter how low diabetes can bring me now I am a long long way from the frightened and confused person I used to be. God bless</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Thundercat, post: 375709, member: 51047"] Sent from the [url=http://www.diabetes.co.uk/app/?utm_source=sig&utm_medium=txt&utm_campaign=appsig]Diabetes Forum App[/url] Hi Rochari. That was a really beautiful and very touching post. Thankfully for the most part attitudes have changed with regard to the fear factor, particularly for children. It is hard as an adult to overcome the vestiges of childhood emotions, even when we can clearly see as our adult selves that what we were told was wrong or misguided. One of the most damaging things ever said to me by a doctor was, when first diagnosed at 12, that there was no reason for me to feel any different to anyone else. It was stated arrogantly and as an inarguable fact. For many maybe it would have had no impact but when I did start to feel different to my friends I thought it was just me amd that there was something wrong with me. Thus began a long long phase of depression and isolation and a quiet rebellion against diabetes. Thankfully I managed to move through it but it was a slow and hard process that affected large swathes of my life. We can overcome. No matter how difficult the journey it is one worth making. Antidepressants, counselling, meditation, exercise, talking, this fantastic forum of support- if we are prepared to brave it we can overcome. Sorry for going on so much but your post really touched something in me. Thank you for making me remember that no matter how low diabetes can bring me now I am a long long way from the frightened and confused person I used to be. God bless [/QUOTE]
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