Diabetes, though already widespread all over is a manageable illness. People with diabetes have learned to live with it everyday with proper management and self-care. However, it is part of life’s color when the diabetic feels depressed and wish they can just rid of a lot of blood sugar testing, diet monitoring and insulin works. They sometimes obtain diabetes blues.
Blues is depression
The ups and downs of everyday life is part of everyday life’s colors. Diabetes blues can come out at times when patients with diabetes start to complain on their own routines and wish they have normal people’s lives…when eating carbohydrates need not to be thought twice and that exercise is not that needed.
Diabetes is not the worst thing to have but sometimes with life’s daily pressures and challenges, it can make the patient depressed and angry. He wishes he does not have it at all. He is angry why he has the diabetes burden in the first place.
It is normal to become moody at times, especially when living with a chronic illness. Type 1 diabetes has no cure and it is with the patient always as adding spice to life’s colors. Though visits to the doctor can uplift a patient, the thought that diabetes is to stay forever is already a depressing situation, which can result to diabetes blues.
Color life with the blues
Bouncing back from diabetic blues is a challenge. However, think about the people who have overcome the disease, about the people who value your life and the people whom you love. They wish to see you healthy and doing well. It is not just a personal responsibility but to keep healthy is your obligation to your family and loved ones.
It is not easy to find a light moment, nor a funny thing with weight management, sensing life’s colors in watching diet, blood testing, glucose monitoring, dental care, foot care and the long list of diabetes management. These can really bring in the diabetes blues.
Some diabetics seek other people’s company if they know the blues are striking. Or they start counting their blessings, read uplifting books, watch inspiring movies, The fact that they are alive and have a chance to act normally are already something to be very grateful for.
Diabetes as a bigger picture is just part of life’s challenges. However, having diabetes is not the end of life, nor the end of the world. Diabetics can wish they can be just happy. While they think they are not happy at all because of diabetes, it is a fact that even people with no diabetes can also be unhappy. Life’s colors give joy to anyone. Diabetes blues is just one situation that can make us value each moment of life more. Happiness is something that is decided by the person himself. You can decide to be happy – either you are diabetic or not.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
This is a Risky Combination - Diabetes and Procrastination!
Procrastination is the thief of time, since it lets time to slip away without accomplishing the task that is ought to be done. To procrastinate is to intentionally delay or postpone something. While procrastination is mostly counter-productive, it is more risky for patients with diabetes. Procrastination is a habit that diabetics cannot afford to have, and better…to break.
Most patients with diabetes know exactly what they have to do with their own body. Counting carbohydrates, maintaining healthy weight, exercising, testing blood glucoses, going to doctor appointments and so on. However, there is always a tendency for them to apply procrastination with regards to this routine.
Procrastination is not just counter-productive, it is dangerous. It may cause difficult complications and create emergency situations.
Why diabetics procrastinate
Knowing that it can result to some unfavorable cases, procrastination is still practiced by many diabetics and these are because of reasons they mostly encounter.
An article about a faith and a purpose-driven life, written by Rick Warren mentioned the 5 common reasons why people procrastinate. We can associate those 5 reasons to procrastination among patients with diabetes as well. Patients with diabetes apply procrastination because of indecision, fear, laziness, anger and perfectionism.
Indecision. Indecision when the patient is overwhelmed with “to do” list such as taking insulin, go to the doctor, attend diabetes class and a lot more. The list can be a long one that he ends up deciding on doing nothing.
Fear. Some patients with diabetes do not go to doctor for fear of seeing their A1C results because they are aware that their diabetes management is poor. Another cause of fear is when the patient detects some complications that he tries to ignore.
Laziness. Lazy to do some routines such as monitoring sugar levels and taking medication. Or probably, a diabetes patient thinks that procrastination of or even skipping a medication once or twice shall do no harm at all.
Anger. Procrastination can be caused by anger because the patient does not like what the doctor or health providers suggest. Or simply he does not want to be being told of what to do.
Perfectionism. It is the patient’s idea to go to the doctor if his diabetes is perfectly managed and that blood glucose is at a perfect level.
We all know that diabetes is a health concern. Something that can sabotage the body’s functionality. There is no room for confusion, fear, anger, indecision and laziness. Act on it now for your own health’s sake and do not wait when blood glucose is perfect.
Doctors and health providers are ideally friends of diabetes patients. They can help diabetics avoid procrastination. It is ideal that diabetics are open to them all the time as they can give more help than harm. After all, these people are part of a patient’s diabetes management.
Most patients with diabetes know exactly what they have to do with their own body. Counting carbohydrates, maintaining healthy weight, exercising, testing blood glucoses, going to doctor appointments and so on. However, there is always a tendency for them to apply procrastination with regards to this routine.
Procrastination is not just counter-productive, it is dangerous. It may cause difficult complications and create emergency situations.
Why diabetics procrastinate
Knowing that it can result to some unfavorable cases, procrastination is still practiced by many diabetics and these are because of reasons they mostly encounter.
An article about a faith and a purpose-driven life, written by Rick Warren mentioned the 5 common reasons why people procrastinate. We can associate those 5 reasons to procrastination among patients with diabetes as well. Patients with diabetes apply procrastination because of indecision, fear, laziness, anger and perfectionism.
Indecision. Indecision when the patient is overwhelmed with “to do” list such as taking insulin, go to the doctor, attend diabetes class and a lot more. The list can be a long one that he ends up deciding on doing nothing.
Fear. Some patients with diabetes do not go to doctor for fear of seeing their A1C results because they are aware that their diabetes management is poor. Another cause of fear is when the patient detects some complications that he tries to ignore.
Laziness. Lazy to do some routines such as monitoring sugar levels and taking medication. Or probably, a diabetes patient thinks that procrastination of or even skipping a medication once or twice shall do no harm at all.
Anger. Procrastination can be caused by anger because the patient does not like what the doctor or health providers suggest. Or simply he does not want to be being told of what to do.
Perfectionism. It is the patient’s idea to go to the doctor if his diabetes is perfectly managed and that blood glucose is at a perfect level.
We all know that diabetes is a health concern. Something that can sabotage the body’s functionality. There is no room for confusion, fear, anger, indecision and laziness. Act on it now for your own health’s sake and do not wait when blood glucose is perfect.
Doctors and health providers are ideally friends of diabetes patients. They can help diabetics avoid procrastination. It is ideal that diabetics are open to them all the time as they can give more help than harm. After all, these people are part of a patient’s diabetes management.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
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