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Originally Posted by Mich  Hi there Blue Sky,
Well, you nailed it for many of us. Channeling stress into diabetes management at times, trying to ignore low sugar when we have something important to do. All people analyze the overall picture of their lives occasionally, but we do it in a particular context.
It's different with diabetes. The anal among us tend to take the best care of ourselves. Are we all a bit obsessive-compulsive about the whole thing? Probably. Do most of us find a way to have a life anyway? Mostly.
To me, you seem pretty normal.  But thank you for sharing and for the introspection you triggered in several of us.
Here's to the rest of the week being stress-free.
Mich |
Guilty as charged as well. We all like to feel we control diabetes rather than it controlling us. When other areas of our life slip from our control then controling the one thing we know we can becomes super-important and can become very consuming. The thought of letting the betes get out of control as well as all the other stuff is scary, as then you start to feel like you are riding your life rather than driving it (and that the person driving the ride has gone off for a beer!).
I have several things in my life at the moment about which I can do very little (you can't always accept that this is the case even when it's plainly true). I know it certainly makes me focus on diabetes more, especially as going high makes me very down in the dumps these days. The last thing you need when life throws a whole bunch at you is sub-optimal control making you into too much of a negative nancy to deal with it, and that's what happens to me when I am out of control...
Good luck, BlueSky, and thanks for starting this thread
