The Emotional Side of Diabetes:

Living well with diabetes takes emotional strength. Why? Because this is a tough disease. Diabetes is more than just a simple matter of eating right and taking your medications. Staying strong emotionally is the key to keeping stress under control and your blood glucose, blood pressure and cholesterol levels where they belong. Unfortunately, people with diabetes as well as doctors often neglect these “real life” aspects of the disease.

How can you manage diabetes while also giving proper attention to your own thoughts and feelings? What follows are the most important things you need to know about the emotional aspects of diabetes, including.

• The personal side;
• The social side;
• The behavioral side