Mindset
Perhaps the most underestimated part of living with diabetes: your mindset. Becoming chronically ill overnight takes a huge mental toll. Acceptance, frustration, helplessness and fear often take turns. In this category, I write honestly about that mental shift. About learning to deal with what you can’t control, and focusing on what you do have control over. Because how you think largely shapes how you live.
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A delayed diagnosis of type 1 diabetes: how my symptoms were missed
Lees meer →: A delayed diagnosis of type 1 diabetes: how my symptoms were missed Read more →: A delayed diagnosis of type 1 diabetes: how my symptoms were missedThere I was. Five days in a hospital bed, sharing a room with three rather chatty grandmothers. Time seemed to crawl by painfully slowly out of sheer boredom, while visiting hours — even though they…
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Five hundred days after the diagnosis of type 1 diabetes
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The emotions that come with type 1 diabetes
Lees meer →: The emotions that come with type 1 diabetes Read more →: The emotions that come with type 1 diabetesEvery November, extra attention is given to diabetes. Fundraising campaigns take place throughout the month, and the media also help raise awareness. Today, Saturday 14 November, is World Diabetes Day. It may sound strange, but…