How does having diabetes affect a person’s life?
I’m doing an assignment about contagious and non-contagious diseases — and one the questions is: How does this problem (diabetes) affect people physically, emotionally and socially? I have answered the physical part, but it would be good if I could answer the other questions.
emotionally hmm they cant eat certain things. so when they see friends eating icecream theyll be left out. socially i guess the same example they cant go out to eat if they need to take a shot and dont have it. umm my friend just wips out her shot right there before eating and gives herself a dose. sometimes she forgets it and has to call someone to bring it over for her from her house. its a hassle remembering or carrying these shots with you. not being able to eat certain foods with friends. stuff like that. they might feel left out sometimes. go expand on what ive said go go GOOO
it brought depression and stress to a person who is a diabetic
My father has Type 1 Diabetes. He has to take his insulin with him whenever he’s going to be out for a prolonged period of time. Diabetes can wear people down easily, so they may not be able to participate in all the activities their family and friends are, which can lead to a feeling of being an outsider or just sadness for not being able to do the same things they can. People with diabetes have a completely different lifestyle than those without. Even at restaurants, a diabetic will have to watch what they order and how much they eat. Diabetics also have to constantly check their blood sugar level, which can be very frustrating, especially in social situations. And they have to worry about what to do when their sugar gets to low, they have to be fully prepared in everything they do.
im a diabetic so i know that it can be difficult sometimes with wanting to eat certain things but cant because of the sugar or carbohydrate content but as long as i control my blood sugars with healthy eating and sometimes excersize there is no reason to why i can’t eat chocolate or drink sugary pop. physically it can change your weight quite quickly but that all depends on wether you eat properly and take your insulin when your supposed to.
Emotionally its sometimes really hard because it takes alot to sit there and say ‘i cant have this’ when all your mates are eating what you want, it does make you feel s**t tbh. when i was younger my school didnt want to take me on a trip because i’m diabetic which isnt nice and actually quite upset me, its unreal that i was discriminated against just for being diabetic.
i hope that helps in someway =]
emotionally, having diabetes feels like; blah.
that really is the best description of it, but i guess you probably have to be diabetic to understand what i mean
socially, it doesn’t really make much difference, i mean, sometimes you get that ‘your a freak!’ vibe off people, but that’s their problem, not yours.
i guess i should try and describe ‘blah’ a bit better… imagine trying to do a maths problem, where half of the variables have no unit of measurement, and most of the time the others are at best, an educated guess, and where 1 doesn’t always equal one, some of the time it equals 2 or 7 or 3 or -1, and you don’t know when it’s going to decide to change it’s value.
you calculate the answer to this problem, ever minute, of every hour, of every day, entering the new values every time, and you know that you will have on keeping to do it over and over every minute of your life.
and if you get the answer wrong, you don’t fail, you feel crappy and do irreversible damage to your body, or you can slip into a coma and die.
that’s what being diabetic feels like.
i want to point out though, that being diabetic isn’t all we do, it’s just a part of us, it’s not like we all walk around feeling depressed and overwhelmed 24/7. we have all the normal range of emotions and experiences that everyone else does, it’s just that we have that diabetic part of us always in the background, you forget it even exists most of the time.
It is depressing to have food limitations, but I don’t want to suffer from the harmful effects that might occur if I don’t stick to my diet so I do the best I can.