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Burnout
How Therapy Helped Me After My Diabetes Misdiagnosis
For T’ara Smith, the tools she learned in therapy to manage negative thoughts helped her weather big life transitions—and a misdiagnosis of type 2 diabetes.
Getting Therapy as a Man with Diabetes: “Our pride gets the best of us.”
Asking for help is never easy—especially for a man in today’s world where mental health is often overlooked. Here, Keith shares why asking for help was worth it.
How to Lean in and Find the Gratitude in a Life with Type 1 Diabetes
Burnout is bound to happen when you’re managing T1D, whether it’s been a few years or 18+. Start to find acceptance despite the endless cycle.
How Diabetes Impacts Your mood
Blood sugar fluctuations and constant stress means diabetes can easily impact your mood...
A Deadly Lack of Information
Jillian Rippolone shares the story of one of her DKA experiences. She laments not having more information and her inability to recognize symptoms.
I Survived an Insulin Overdose
Sitting there crashing but unable to speak, I could see my life. Not in imagery but in thoughts. Scared and knowing what I had done, I faced my mortality.
Not Perfect Anymore
Thank you, type 1 diabetes, for helping me find my tribe. Thank you for helping me discover that nothing is perfect. Your best is the best. This carries over into everything, not just dealing with T1D...
When You Don’t Wanna Do It Anymore
It's not that you don't want to do life anymore, it's that you don't want to do life with diabetes anymore.
My Doctor Fired Me as a Patient
Eventually the day came when I ran out of insulin and had no refills left. My A1c was 12% this time around. I had no other choice but to schedule an appointment with my endocrinologist, despite my hes...
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.
Life Beyond Diabetes Complications
And just like many T1Ds, I went through my rebellious period when I was mad at the world, and complained about how unfair everything was, all while doing nothing to care for myself properly, change my...
My Endo Threw Me Out
My jouney with type 1 is only two years and counting, but if there is one thing I have all figured out, it is that my support system has the biggest impact on my diabetes management. This includes my ...
Bouncing Back and Moving Forward—Diabetes Burnout
But the thought of it all was just exhausting. I was burned out. I didn’t know “diabetes burnout” was an official term, and I wasn’t even sure that my diabetes was to blame.
Type One Teen Diabetes Burnout Survival Guide
Reflecting back on my freshman year, I realized I was in a deep state of diabetes burnout, when one gets tired of the endless attention diabetes requires.