This is sort of a 'duh' finding on the part of researchers. Let me ask them this: wouldn't you be depressed if you found out that you had a disorder that couldn't be cured, required painful injections and/or painful pump infusion sets, painful blood testing at least ten times daily and for which there are no generic drugs to treat it (ALL insulin is brand name, thanks to a lack of generic standards for bio drugs and it is VERY expensive). Oh, and wouldn't you be depressed if you found out that having it put you in a class of 'undesireables' when it comes to purchasing health and life insurance? Wouldn't you be depressed if you were dumped by a boyfriend/girlfriend because they 'just can't handle the needles all the time'? There is nothing good about this disorder and coping with it 24/7/365 is daunting. Oh, and of course, you're treated like a five-year-old by your doctors, no matter what age you are. How would you like to be told 'you're a bad diabetic' (like being a bad dog, I guess) if you slip up at all at the incredibly difficult task of trying to mimic the function of an intrernal organ (gee, maybe we should tell people with heart disease that they are 'bad heart patients' if their results aren't 100% perfect!) on a daily basis. I hate having this, I hate everything about it and my life would have been 100% better if I didn't have it - I would have had more choices in life, I wouldn't live in fear of losing my job (and my work-provided insurance, which pays for the insulin that keeps me alive) and I especially wouldn't have to deal with an ignorant public that treats all diabetics as 'sinners who could have prevented their condition if they weren't pie-eating, fat slobs' or tried to convince me that I could cure it if I just changed my diet (I can't do that - and to be honest, I will beat the next person that tells me this to death with my blood-testing meter). I'd be much, much happier without this condition. There, does that explain why Type 1 diabetics are depressed?
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This is sort of a 'duh' finding on the part of researchers. Let me ask them this: wouldn't you be depressed if you found out that you had a disorder that couldn't be cured, required painful injections and/or painful pump infusion sets, painful blood testing at least ten times daily and for which there are no generic drugs to treat it (ALL insulin is brand name, thanks to a lack of generic standards for bio drugs and it is VERY expensive). Oh, and wouldn't you be depressed if you found out that having it put you in a class of 'undesireables' when it comes to purchasing health and life insurance? Wouldn't you be depressed if you were dumped by a boyfriend/girlfriend because they 'just can't handle the needles all the time'? There is nothing good about this disorder and coping with it 24/7/365 is daunting. Oh, and of course, you're treated like a five-year-old by your doctors, no matter what age you are. How would you like to be told 'you're a bad diabetic' (like being a bad dog, I guess) if you slip up at all at the incredibly difficult task of trying to mimic the function of an intrernal organ (gee, maybe we should tell people with heart disease that they are 'bad heart patients' if their results aren't 100% perfect!) on a daily basis. I hate having this, I hate everything about it and my life would have been 100% better if I didn't have it - I would have had more choices in life, I wouldn't live in fear of losing my job (and my work-provided insurance, which pays for the insulin that keeps me alive) and I especially wouldn't have to deal with an ignorant public that treats all diabetics as 'sinners who could have prevented their condition if they weren't pie-eating, fat slobs' or tried to convince me that I could cure it if I just changed my diet (I can't do that - and to be honest, I will beat the next person that tells me this to death with my blood-testing meter). I'd be much, much happier without this condition. There, does that explain why Type 1 diabetics are depressed?
January 25, 2011 - 6:00pmThis Comment
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