Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Diabetes UK has launched The Peer Support telephone and email service offering people with diabetes the chance to talk to someone who understands what they are going through and can offer support based on their own personal experience. A number of other support services for people with diabetes already exist, but this is the first to offer peer support from people who have the condition themselves.
The charity decided to set up the new confidential service after a survey suggested that 72% of people with diabetes who needed emotional or psychological support had not been offered this from a specialist healthcare professional or service. It says this is a concern because people with diabetes are twice as likely to experience depression as the general population.
http://www.webmd.boots.com/diabetes/news/20120417/diabetes-support-from-those-who-know
So what are we, chopped liver? If only the forum got the same promotion as this service! 🙄
The charity decided to set up the new confidential service after a survey suggested that 72% of people with diabetes who needed emotional or psychological support had not been offered this from a specialist healthcare professional or service. It says this is a concern because people with diabetes are twice as likely to experience depression as the general population.
http://www.webmd.boots.com/diabetes/news/20120417/diabetes-support-from-those-who-know
So what are we, chopped liver? If only the forum got the same promotion as this service! 🙄
