Earlier this month, we hosted a Diabetes Moment Holiday Sweepstakes in which we asked the D-Community to send us some notes on what they learned or experienced in 2012.
We raffled off prizes to nine winners, announced this past Monday. But what we haven’t done yet is share our own personal D-learning moments from 2012, so that’s what we plan to do now, in the spirit of this month’s Diabetes Social Media Advocacy (DSMA) Blog…
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week, which is related to life with diabetes in more ways than many of us care to admit. Oftentimes, diabetes can take us to a dark place, where not only managing this illness but making it through life, day-to-day, can seem overwhelming.
This national advocacy initiative was initially established in 1990 by the U.S. Congress, with awareness and assistance tools organized by the National Alliance on Mental Illness. To…
We’re in the final days of May — National Mental Health Awareness Month — and earlier this month, I shared my own personal struggles in dealing with depression and diabetes. But that was through my lens as an adult with diabetes. What about children and adolescent PWDs?
We all know that being a teenager is no picnic, and adding diabetes to the mix can sometimes be a recipe for disaster. And depression.
Studies show that…
People with diabetes certainly aren’t immune to issues with insomnia or other sleeping problems that occur with age, jet lag or seasonal affective disorder. When that happens, sometimes counting sheep just doesn’t cut it. But there has been concern discussed recently in the D-OC about using sleep aids with diabetes. A thread on TuDiabetes starts off with the notion that “any kind of sleep aid is taboo for an insulin-dependent diabetic.” So we decided to…
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