I’m new here and am happy to find support for my type 2 diabetes. I am wondering if anyone here has any suggestions as to how I can get my kids and husband to understand that stress is not helping me with my diabetes. This is the main thing that is causing me to lose control of my mental and physical health. Anyone have any advice on how to handle this situation? Thanks for listening!
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Sorry to hear that you are having a stressful time @VikiWiki , and how that is impacting your mood, and ability to manage your health and wellbeing.
Some sources of stress in our lives are very difficult to avoid completely, but there can be ways to cope better with stressful situations and to learn to work through them as a family.
Are you able to identify specific sources of stress that are affecting you? Being able to understand whether stresses are internal or external can be a way to help start the process of diffusing them.
Reflecting on stressful times in my own life, sometimes the events are just the events, and the amount of stress I endure can be largely down to how I react to them, rather than the events themselves. In other words, sometimes fairly minor things stress me out hugely, and at other times major sources of stress don’t affect me anything like so much!
Some sources of stress in our lives are very difficult to avoid completely, but there can be ways to cope better with stressful situations and to learn to work through them as a family.
Are you able to identify specific sources of stress that are affecting you? Being able to understand whether stresses are internal or external can be a way to help start the process of diffusing them.
Reflecting on stressful times in my own life, sometimes the events are just the events, and the amount of stress I endure can be largely down to how I react to them, rather than the events themselves. In other words, sometimes fairly minor things stress me out hugely, and at other times major sources of stress don’t affect me anything like so much!