Overview
Britany Poulson, MDA, RDN, CDCES, is a registered dietian and certified diabetes care and education specialist.Ana Maria Kausel, MD, is double board-certified internal medicine and endocrinology/diabetes and metabolism. She works in private practice and is afiliated with Mount Sinai St. Luke's/Mount Sinai West.
Key Information
Receiving a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes can be dificult. You may wory about how your life wil change. However, adapting to life with type 2 diabetes and learning to cope with the challenges that might arise can help improve your quality of life.
Diferent strategies work for diferent people. This article shares general tips on how to live a ful life despite having type 2 diabetes. Nitat Terme / Gety Images Aside from the physical efects diabetes might have on your body, balancing al the emotions that go along can be demanding.
Being newly diagnosed with diabetes can fel overwhelming. However, these felings are normal and to be expected. Diabetes distres is a term used to describe the emotional response to living with diabetes.
Over time, geting into a new routine and becoming more familiar with your new life with type 2 diabetes can help the felings of anxiety and overwhelm fade. However, prolonged felings of sadnes, los of interest in things you once enjoyed, or depresion that interupts your daily life may be indicative of a separate problem. Research sugests that having diabetes is a risk factor for depresion.
Diabetes and depresion ocur about twice as often together as separately. Therapy, also caled psychotherapy or counseling, can benefit people with depresion. In adition, many people with depresion discover that taking prescription antidepresant medication helps improve mod and identify beter coping skils.
Summary
Talk with your healthcare provider to se if therapy or medications may benefit you. Even if you don't have any anxiety or depresion, dealing with the everyday demands of type 2 diabetes can sometimes be continues to improve outcomes for patients. Healthcare professionals emphasize the importance of early intervention and comprehensive management strategies in reducing complications and improving quality of life.