Emotional eating, a behavior often linked to stress and emotions, can significantly impact the well-being of individuals with diabetes.
Mental health
Diabetes and mental health are very closely linked.
Everyone can feel stressed from time to time. Managing your diabetes, as well as other life demands, can feel very overwhelming. Emotional swings can affect your blood sugar levels, so it's important that you know how to recognize mood changes or stressors and how to deal with them.
It is estimated that 30% of people with diabetes have symptoms of depression at one time or another. Sometimes people living with diabetes feel distressed, which can include feeling frustrated, sad, angry or worried. Diabetes distress is a very common condition, so do not feel that you are alone.
The articles in this mental health section explore these and other commonly seen emotional and psychological issues, and offer helpful tips on how to cope and develop management strategies.
An attitude of optimism can jump-start your diabetes self-care
In this blog, we look deeper into how to shift out of a negative view and awaken optimism. Optimism is a critical factor in living with any chronic illness and, for diabetes care, it is essential.
Fostering positive emotion: how to live life more fully
Unsurprisingly, living with diabetes is commonly correlated with low mood and depression. However, building positive emotion into our daily lives is possible, and can easily be incorporated into our ongoing self-care routines, just like our diabetes management.
Diabetes and mental health
Diabetes and mental health are very closely linked. The experience of living with diabetes is often associated with concerns specific to the illness, such as fear of complications or fear of hypoglycemia. As a result, conditions such as depression, diabetes distress and anxiety can all occur.
Emotional well-being: an essential pillar of diabetes self-care
Emotional well-being is the partner to diabetes knowledge and self-care skill that can lead to a successful life, despite having a chronic illness.
Anxiety and diabetes
It’s natural for everyone to feel anxious or worried at times. A moderate amount of anxiety can be a motivator to get a project done or respond to a dangerous situation.
