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Q: depression and diabetes
asked by: EA705 on September 16th, 2008
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Hi everyone... I'm 18 and just started at Slippery Rock University. I have a lot of things going on in my life right now and it seems as if at this point in time it's all too much for me to handle. I had a girlfriend of 2 and a half years when i started school, and i already broke up with her. We had planned on staying together through college and maybe following our dreams together afterwards. I've only been here 3 weeks so far and she already cheated on me for the second time so i can't stay with her. I'm sad because i miss all the things that we had together and she knew what to say whenever i was down about everything else in my life, which leads me to why else i am down. I'm also down because i have diabetes and Celiac's Disease. Celiac's Disease is where you cant eat anything with gluton or wheat in it which is pretty much my everyday diet. I dont really follow that disease since my diet is so strict with the diabetes in the first place, so i dont pay attention to if it has gluton in it or not. The thing is most people with diabetes have it somewhat differently than me. I've had it since i was 2 years old so im pretty much a veteran when it comes to it. I'm having lots of problems with it lately though. I went to the doctor last week and she said that if i continue at the rate i'm going my body will break itself down and in 10 years i may not make it through. This too has me down. Whenever i'm stressed out it highers my blood sugar and lately its been nothing but stress. My girlfriend making me jealous through facebook, knowing that she's already forgotten about me is so hard to deal with. All this school work with college is killing me, worrying about me mom back home (who suffers from depression already). I care a lot about her, but i cant talk to her about my problems because she just cries and tells me how she doesnt want me to be like her. Plus my grandfather (who lives with me at my moms) is dying and i've lived with him since i was 8. I'm just really sad, and i want to cry but its as if im too down to cry. All i do is pace and get really bad anxiety and the last thing i need to do is punch a hole through my dorm room wall. I'm down, so down... if anyone has anything to help me out i would greatly greatly appreciate it.
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NightStar
replied on September 16th, 2008
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I am sorry to hear that you are down, you need to take care of your self, go to the doctor and ask for something to control the anxiety and the depression. It may take a bit before you are feeling better. Sometimes they have to adjust meds. But the sooner you start the sooner you can get to feeling better.

I am bipolar and have manic and depression episodes, so I know what the depression is like, when I went through my divorce, I cried for 6 months over it. They got me on medication but it just took time to recover.

Thankfully that has been more then 3 years ago, and I am still on my medication and not having any episodes any longer.
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