Mental Health + Type 2 Diabetes

How Therapy Helped Me After My Diabetes Misdiagnosis

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A Guide to Different Types of Therapy

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Getting Therapy as a Man with Diabetes: “Our pride gets the best of us.”

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Mental Health Care for All

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Why Going to Therapy is Giving Yourself the Chance You Deserve

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I need to take insulin but I’m scared of needles…

This educational content is brought to you by the ADA x BT1 Collab. The following transcript has been edited for...

Anxiety in People with Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes

Coverage of the ADA Scientific Sessions is brought to you by the ADA x BT1 Collab. While it is often...

5 Ways to Overcome Blood Sugar Testing Anxiety

We’ve all heard it before—it’s important to test our blood sugar to manage type 2 diabetes. That makes sense, right?...

Are depression and diabetes related?

The simple answer: yes. Research shows that if you have diabetes, your risk of developing depression more than doubles. In fact,...

How a Mindset Shift Can Improve Diabetes Self-Care

Today, we know that medical treatment, nutritional intervention and diabetes education must be personalized and seek to satisfy the specific...

The Impact of Insulin Rationing on Mental Health

Editor’s Note: People who take insulin require consistently affordable and predictable sources of insulin at all times. If you or...

Connecting Mental Health + Physical Health to Diabetes

My passion is connecting the DOTS (hence the acronym of my practice) between mental health and physical health… and everything...

Reducing Diabetes Distress Tips: Everyday Self-Care Acts 

Depression is very common in type 2. In fact, it has been referred to as ‘the chicken and the egg’...

Losing Weight with Type 2 Diabetes: “You cannot hate yourself to wellness.”

When Mary Van Doorn was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes at 21 years old—after a routine physical—she didn’t take the...

Losing Weight with Type 2 Diabetes: Things to Consider

Losing weight with type 2 diabetes (T2D) is far more complicated than simply taking regular walks and eating more veggies....

Diabetes Diagnosis and Diabulimia

I believe most people with diabetes (type I or type 2) would agree that their diagnosis is a core memory....

Body Image: You Don’t Need to be Skinny to be Fit

Compared to people living without diabetes, those living with type 2 diabetes might have a harder time practicing body positivity....

Tips for Talking to Your Teenager with Diabetes: Avoiding Shame + Blame

A recent viral study that polled 1,000 parents showed 75 percent of them agreed that children from the ages of...

Moving Past Denial With Type 2 Diabetes

You might think one of the first steps after a type 2 diabetes diagnosis is learning how to lower your...

Type 2 Isn’t a “Good” Form of Diabetes

In my journey as a diabetic, I have experienced the negative comparisons between being a type 2 and being a...

How to Remove Shame from Type 2 Diabetes

Rachel is the author of Yoga for Diabetes and a contributor in the Beyond Type 1 Network. She raises awareness...