Living well with diabetes takes emotional strength. Why? Because this is a tough disease. Diabetes is more than just a simple matter of eating right and taking your medications.
Staying strong emotionally is the key to keeping stress and your blood glucose levels where they belong. Unfortunately, people with diabetes as well as doctors often neglect these “real life” aspects of the disease.
How can you manage diabetes while also giving proper attention to your own thoughts and feelings? What follows are the most important things you need to know about the emotional features of diabetes, including:
The Emotional Side of diabetes.
- the personal side
- the social side
- the behavioural side
A small brochure provided courtesy of the Behavioural Diabetes Institute (BDI), the world’s first organisation dedicated to tackling the unmet psychological needs of people with diabetes.
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