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Life with a T1D Eating Disorder
Shelby Charles lived with type 1 diabetes for years and used it as a weight loss tool before understanding just dangerous her habits had become.
Mental Health Q + A with Diabetes Psychologist Mark Heyman – Navigating the Holidays
Welcome to the Mental Health Q+A with Diabetes Psychologist Mark Heyman. In this column on Beyond Type 1, Mark answers your most pressing, difficult, and personal mental health questions.
My Type 1 Truth: Shedding Light on Diabulimia
As Amy passed her 20-year anniversary of living with type 1 diabetes, she recounts her type 1 truth and shares her experience with diabulimia.
Mental Health Q + A with Diabetes Psychologist Mark Heyman
Welcome to the Mental Health Q+A with Diabetes Psychologist Mark Heyman. In this new column on Beyond Type 1, Mark answers your most pressing, difficult, and personal mental health questions.
This Is Type One
Gathered from Connected in Motion's Summer Slipstream 2017, these stories share both hope and the struggle of living with type 1 diabetes.
When I Stopped Testing My Blood Sugar
When I arrived I had bloods done—my blood sugar was reading at 67mmol/L (1207mg/dL), higher than anyone has ever been admitted whilst still conscious.
Strength Is Accepting Help for Chronic Anxiety
Kaylin Hunter used to think being strong meant refusing a life vest and fighting the T1D current and the anxiety of managing a chronic disease entirely on her own, but she now defines strength as reco...
This is What Type 1 Diabetes Looks Like
This is what type 1 diabetes looks like. Pretty normal, right? Well, what you can't see right now is someone recovering from a severe low blood sugar. The now dried sweat that, moments ago, drenc...
Self-care is Never Selfish for Parents of Kids with Diabetes
In order to handle of all of this and be ready for any challenge that your child’s diabetes can throw at you, parents have to be at their best! But who takes cares of you? This is one of the most co...
Guilty As Charged
There is a feeling I used to have when I was about 15. Back then I wasn’t old enough to understand what it was. All I knew was that when I had it, I felt awful. Like something about me wasn’t quit...
After They Took My Pancreas
He then took my husband aside and said he operated on the pancreas of a patient two weeks prior and the patient died; my husband should call my friends and family. It appeared I wasn’t long for life...
How to Survive a Health Crisis with Your Spirit Intact: Part I
To a person who doesn't live with multiple autoimmune conditions, I know the description I offer of what equates as “good health” sounds like hell, and it would be hard to imagine calling thi...
7 Real-Life Tips to Get Through ‘Diabetes Burnout’
I found it really difficult to get through my own experience of ‘diabetes burnout’ so I wanted to share some real life tips that I used successfully to get through it.
Part Five: The Thing in Front of Me
Imagine your kid running out into the street. Imagine that. That's how it feels and that's how it is when she drops. Now imagine that over and over again.
Honesty: How this Type 1 Overcame Diabulimia
In a fit of rebellion and rage, I stopped taking all of my necessary insulin and started keeping my blood sugars high on purpose. What started out as an attempt to avoid having low blood sugars became...
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