Can depression be "ok" ??? Or not...
A while back I wrote a good description about diabetes as I understand this beast that we all share
http://www.dlife.com/diabetes-forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=11258&a...
Anyway here's my basic question.... as a Type 1 diabetic with more than a little experience of the disease. I believe that, for many particularly those brand new to the disease, they have a perfectly GREAT reason to be "depressed". Very, very normal and with perfectly excellent reasons! They should be even. Can that kind of ~depression~ be "ok"? (ie Their universe has been turned totally upside down, it takes a while to learn the new "scary" habits, the new rules of coping... a while to regain any mental balance, a better perspective. )
Those of us with a bit more experience, or even a lot more for that matter, can we be depressed about this disease anymore? Because of our diabetes expereince, something many of us have had for 10, 20, 30, 40+ years... the daily rituals, the annoyances are so engrained into us...
How do you determine "depression" at that point? With heavy diabetic experiecnes how would you determine depression? Is it the same as for those new to the disease or is it a different "flavor" in some way? All of us share the same struggles, (testing, shooting, highs, lows) but do we get the same depression, if it happens? Can that be "ok"?
I do not know the answer what do you think???
Tags: beginner, coping, depression, experience, experienced-diabetes, metaphor, normalcy, stuart
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Permalink Reply by Cathy Jacobson on -
I truly believe that the feelings you have are the feelings that you have, embrace them, live with them, heal them if you need to in order to live a good life. Diabetes is a depressing disease, as are all diseases that there is no cure, no way to "get rid of it".
But there are so many ways to live with it, and as unfair as it is, no one would dare walk into a store and ask for a can of diabetes. Yet, this is part of the life we received, and we must as best we can learn to live with it, make peace with our bodies, our lives, our disease, and then live, grow and thrive.
I have been in therapy for many, many years, my children are 27 and 22 and they don't remember a time when my therp wasn't just part of our family. If you need therapy to deal with the disease, then go for it. Give yourself that opportunity to heal.
(oh, by the way, my therapy had nothing to do with the "D"....I was there when I was diagnosed) Use all the resources available to you to be all that you can be.....there is no reason for not living a healthy vibrant life, unless that is one you chose to live.
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