This is not good

[Jennywren]

http://uk.health.lifestyle.yahoo.net/one-million-people-in-the-uk-keep-their-diabetes-a-secret.htm, lots of topics being raised being daibetes week .

 

[Northerner]

http://uk.health.lifestyle.yahoo.net/one-million-people-in-the-uk-keep-their-diabetes-a-secret.htm, lots of topics being raised being daibetes week .

It comes back to what I was saying yesterday - with such a negative portrayal of diabetes/diabetics in all the government/media campaigns it's no wonder that many want to avoid people thinking that it was a 'lifestyle choice' for them. We could really do with another campaign to give hope and encouragement to people with diabetes rather than vilifying them (us!). With obesity increasing anyway, despite all the dire warnings, it's fairly clear that a large number of people believe it will never happen to them and will only act (possibly) when/if it does.

 

[margie]

That was what they were meant to be discussing on BBC Breakfast this morning.

http://www.diabetessupport.co.uk/boards/showthread.php?t=18506

however, it was only slightly touched on they spent most of their time talking about a child being denied the chance to go to a sports camp because of his diabetes.

 

[Tina63]

I've said before I think one of the soaps should run a storyline with a child being diagnosed with T1. That would help so many people understand what we are all going through. Everyone talked about bipolar when Eastenders ran the Stacey storyline (though maybe with some inaccuracies) so it would be so good to see diabetes portrayed to a national audience.

 

[hayleybumble]

I went on a Carb Counting Course last year & to my surprise there was a lady there who had been diabetic for about 30 years and she wouldn't even do her injection in front of 8 other diabetics. And a few more people in the group didn't have any friends or people around them that knew about their Type 1 diabetes. This is just so stupid to me, it's SO unsafe and being in denial, I mean it's not going to make it go away is it, just to pretend it isn't there.
I regularly take my insulin and test my levels in public & if others don't like it that's their problem in my eyes.

And in reply to TINA63 I think Coronation Street did a story a few years back about a girl who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, but then she tried to kill herself by destroying all her insulin & eating loads of sugar. *SIGH*

 

[Steff]

And in reply to TINA63 I think Coronation Street did a story a few years back about a girl who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, but then she tried to kill herself by destroying all her insulin & eating loads of sugar. *SIGH*

Think it was Lucy Jo Hudson who played Katie Harris