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Categories: Highs & Lows Relationships Emotions
Tags: Blogabetes depression Openness your help
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Blogging is difficult for me sometimes. Don't get me wrong, I love this website and everyone associated with the Blogabetes community. Each and every one of you continue to be an enormous help. I can come on here and rant and rave to the ENTIRE WORLD about my life with diabetes. I make friends, I laugh, I tear up, and it's all wonderful. It's fantastic and I have no doubt this will continue to be an extremely helpful thing for me and everyone else too. At times though, the only thing I crave is complete and utter privacy, freedom from the world of diabetes and from everything. The last thing on my mind is the desire to share one more personal diabetic experience with the world. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 2 Relationships Complications Emotions Fitness Real Life
Tags: depression exercise
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My fellow Americans...I have depression. Or, I am depressed. Or, I am a person with depression. How ever you choose to say it, depression is a condition--like diabetes--that I deal with every day.
I was first treated for depression after No. 1 was born. In retrospect, the depression seemed almost instant after he was born. It took several weeks, yes weeks, before I realized that my desire to "put him back in" so I could be pregnant for the rest of my life wasn't normal. He was about six months old when I felt confident and comfortable enough to wean myself off anti-depressants. I seemed to manage just fine after that. But one of the first questions I asked my OB when I was pregnant with No. 2 was how likely I was to get depressed again. I was devastated when she very bluntly said "pretty good." Although I thought I had beat post-partum depression, several days after No. 2 was born, I recognized the signs and promptly got back to the doctor. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Children Highs & Lows Relationships Emotions Women's Issues Real Life
Tags: depression depression and diabetes
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I'm not really sure why I feel compelled to do this, but I do. It's important to me that you know that diabetes did not cause my depression.
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Categories: Type 1 Children Emotions In the News
Tags: depression
Views: 887
There have been a couple of items in the news lately about type 2 diabetes and depression, stating that people who have type 2 are more prone to depression.
This, to me, is one of those duh articles. It makes sense that someone with a chronic disease would be more prone to depression. It's hard. Constantly thinking about food and dosing makes ME depressed sometimes - I can't imagine how it would be to have the disease.
I worry about this for Olivia. I suffer from depression and there's a good chance that she could inherit that tendency, too. I hope she doesn't, but the odds are there and they worry me.
It's not bad enough to have diabetes, to have the day-to-day drudgery of taking care of a chronic condition but to also have the threat of depression hanging over her seems unfair, like it's too much to ask of her.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Children Relationships Emotions Women's Issues Real Life
Tags: depression depression and diabetes
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I was beyond thrilled when my depression didn't get any worse after No. 3 was born. For as miserable as I was after No. 1 and No. 2 were born, I felt absolutely fantastic.
I also felt for a long while that this was just the way it was going to be. That in order to feel something close to normal I'd need to take a pill once a day. No big deal considering all the other medications I was taking to be sort of close to normal.
I started to have episodes or days when I would be aggravated and super angry for no apparent reason. And then just like that I'd be fine. I started to look up symptoms of bipolar disorder thinking that having what amounted to rather extreme mood swings was a hallmark of bipolar. But after some research I decided that I did not have bipolar.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Children Relationships Emotions Women's Issues Real Life
Tags: anti-depressants depression pregnancy
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My last post about depression had me talking a lot. I mean, I cut like 200 words out of that post to get it to a readable length and here I am still having things to say about depression.
So when I left off I was an unemployed mother of two who was going through some seriously taxing financial and emotional times. On a rare day when The Mr. and I had time alone (I actually think we had gone on a date!) I admitted to him and to myself that I was depressed. I started taking Prozac and feeling better. I felt better that it was a problem that was recognized and that I was finally able to take care of it.
No. 2 was about two and a half when I finally found a job (and just five blocks from home!); I continued on the Prozac knowing that it wasn't just being unemployed that was making me feel so miserable.
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Categories: Complications Emotions
Tags: depression mortality statistics
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A study published in the December edition of Diabetes Care magazine (an ADA publication) examined the links between diabetes, depression and mortality in older adults.
Not surprisingly, untreated depression led to a much higher death rate in 5 years than if there was depression intervention. Intervention was either an anti-depressant or psychotherapy.
It is difficult to take care of all the aspects of this disease on a good day, when you're depressed it's nearly impossible. How hard is it to go out for your daily walk when you just want to keep your head under the covers? (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: caring community depression
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Yesterday was just a crappy day in general. I think my brain was just working overtime which is never good for me. I try to keep the depression that comes with having diabetes at bay but sometimes it is overwhelming. Sometimes it seems nothing will get me out of it.
I have found the best way for me to get this junk out is to get it out literally literally! I write my blog here at dLife and my personal blog. I share the good times and bad. So many times I have thought, "no one wants to hear about my cruddy day" but whenever I have, someone else has commented on how they too feel that way now and then. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: blogging community depression support
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This past Saturday me and 14 others walked to raise money to fight diabetes. It was the American Diabetes Associations "Step Out to Fight Diabetes" walk. I posted about this a few weeks ago but at that time, only my wife and I had signed up.
To have so many people walk, friends and family alike, was just awesome. I felt so supported, so loved and cared about. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Food Highs & Lows Real Life
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* This just in from the Potash Research Facility. In a five-day study involving the consumption of Frosted Mini-Wheats cereal for breakfast, one patient (Charlie) demonstrated postprandial blood glucose levels that - in scientific terms - didn't suck. Glucose levels peaked at about 200 mg/dl, a marked reduction from the postprandial effect of blueberry waffles. Chief Scientist Susanne Potash observed positive results in four out of five days. The patient's reaction, however, after being told that he'd be having more Mini-Wheats and less blueberry waffles for breakfast, did suck.
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