If you were already old enough to understand at the point you first found out you had diabetes, it must have been quite a shock, yes? It is already reality, and people do die from diabetes. The following sections describe the stages a normal people go through after being diagnosed with diabetes. The stages that you experience might differ in the order as discussed below. Many of what you’re feeling would be exact of a dying person. Some stages are more prominent than the others.

1. The stage of denial

You’d have already tried to deny the fact that you have diabetes, despite the evidence provided by your doctor. You would probably go all out just to overturn all evidence, by looking for more evidence to prove that the whole thing is just a mistake.

However, eventually, you would have to face reality and realised that from now on, you have to accept diagnosis. Once you have done so, you would have to begin to gather information needed to start to help yourself.

Remember, this journey is never a one-man show, do tell the news to your family, friends and people close to you. You should never be ashamed of having diabetes and you should not hide it from anyone. Instead, you need the help of them to know that they should avoid tempting you with sweet treats you should not be eating, or to be able to give you a glucagon (a treatment for low blood glucose) if you become unconscious from a severe insulin reaction.

Diabetes is not contagious, and neither should it carry a social stigma.
It is NOT your fault.

2. The stages of anger.

Once passed the stage of denial, you may become angry by being burdened by this diagnosis. However, you should soon realise that diabetes is not all that terrible, and you cannot do anything to rid yourself of the disease.

Being angry prevents you from being in a problem-solving mode. Instead, it could also worsen your situation.

3. The stage of bargaining

Studies have shown that people with diabetes suffer from depression 2 to 4 times faster than the general population. And anxiety 3 to 5 times faster than people without diabetes.

Depression or anxiety may set in when the discussion of complications, blood tests and pills or insulin start to overwhelm them. Especially when, most of the time, for most patients, they have plenty of life ahead of them.
You may justify your depression with your diabetic situation, but they are surmountable.

To fend off depression, the following are few important methods:
- Aim to achieve an excellent blood glucose control
- Start to execute a regular exercise program
- Recognise that every abnormal blip in your blood glucose is not your fault.

Should you be unable to overcome depression brought by diabetes, consider therapy or antidepressant drugs.

4. Moving on.

As you move from stage to stage reacting to your diagnosis, don’t feel that any emotions, regardless it being anger, denial or even depression to be wrong. These are natural coping mechanisms that serve a psychological purpose for a brief time. The key is to allow you to feel the emotions, but drop them along the way. Move on and learn to live normally with your diabetes.

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