Do you ever feel alone with your diabetes? I do. Even being very active in the diabetes online community, I often feel very isolated in my everyday life.
It is hard living with diabetes, and because it is invisible, most of the people in my daily life will never see all of the struggles I deal with.
I try very hard to share as much of my life with diabetes as I can. But it is very hard to translate these thoughts and emotions into words. Much of what is in my head is so vague and hard to even identify. Isolation and loneliness is a problem when living with diabetes.
We are seeing a lot of buzz in the mainstream media these days. While it is unfortunate that diabetes has become something so big that we’re seeing words like “epidemic” being used, I think the press and exposure it draws can only help.
One of the big problems that we see in mainstream media is the inaccurate representation of diabetes that they broadcast. False information is also a problem, and compounds the isolation and loneliness we deal with.
Find a way to use World Diabetes Day to fight the inaccuracy AND isolation. Even if what you do is something small, like printing postcards or posters to display and pass out somewhere. Or maybe you can do something bigger, like send an article to a local news organization (here are some tips on how to do that).
Whatever you choose to do, do something. Anything. It will help the cause, and will also help fight that isolation that we all live with.
Scott K. Johnson writes about both his failures and successes with type 1 diabetes at Diabetes Daily and dLife.
It is hard living with diabetes, and because it is invisible, most of the people in my daily life will never see all of the struggles I deal with.
I try very hard to share as much of my life with diabetes as I can. But it is very hard to translate these thoughts and emotions into words. Much of what is in my head is so vague and hard to even identify. Isolation and loneliness is a problem when living with diabetes.
We are seeing a lot of buzz in the mainstream media these days. While it is unfortunate that diabetes has become something so big that we’re seeing words like “epidemic” being used, I think the press and exposure it draws can only help.
One of the big problems that we see in mainstream media is the inaccurate representation of diabetes that they broadcast. False information is also a problem, and compounds the isolation and loneliness we deal with.
Find a way to use World Diabetes Day to fight the inaccuracy AND isolation. Even if what you do is something small, like printing postcards or posters to display and pass out somewhere. Or maybe you can do something bigger, like send an article to a local news organization (here are some tips on how to do that).
Whatever you choose to do, do something. Anything. It will help the cause, and will also help fight that isolation that we all live with.
Scott K. Johnson writes about both his failures and successes with type 1 diabetes at Diabetes Daily and dLife.
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