American social psychologist Festinger has a very famous judgment, known as the "Festinger's Law": 10% of things in life are beyond our control, while the other 90% are It's something we can control.
The same goes for diabetic patients controlling blood sugar. The incidence of diabetes is 10% to 12%. You cannot choose to develop diabetes. But the remaining 90% depends on how you understand diabetes and how you control and manage blood sugar.
People with the following six emotions will definitely have worse and worse diabetes control.
1 Diabetic patient with depression and complaints
Many people with diabetes find it difficult to accept when they are first diagnosed with diabetes. They complain that fate is unfair to them and how they got diabetes. Complaining about this negative emotion will directly lead to depression, leading to the following symptoms:
1. Low mood, low emotion, depression and pessimism.
2. Slow thinking, reduced active speech, and significantly slowed down speech speed.
3. Decreased volitional activity, leading a passive and lazy life, not wanting to do things, not wanting to interact with people around you, and avoiding social interactions.
Our emotional center that regulates emotions is in the hypothalamus of the brain, and our brain's nerve center that regulates endocrine is also in the hypothalamus.
Therefore, excessive and long-term negative emotional changes can cause endocrine dysfunction, lead to large blood sugar fluctuations, and make diabetes difficult to control.
Countermeasures
After suffering from diabetes, no matter how depressed you complain, it will not help. On the contrary, these negative emotions will affect your condition, work and life, and finally make your work and life a mess, which in turn will make your condition more serious.
Only by holding a normal heart, greeting and dealing with diabetes with a smile, actively cooperating with doctors' treatment, conscientiously learning the relevant knowledge of diabetes prevention and treatment, doing a good job with a positive attitude and arranging your own life can you control it well. blood sugar.
If your depression is severe and you cannot adjust it on your own, you should seek psychological counseling from a psychiatrist as soon as possible. If necessary, you can use antidepressant medication.
2 diabetic patients who break the pot
This is a manifestation of pessimism and disappointment, mainly manifested as despair about the disease and a laissez-faire mentality in work, life and disease treatment. In work, it manifests itself as sloppiness and laziness; in life, it manifests as uncontrolled squandering and wasting one's own life, such as uncontrolled smoking and drinking, staying up late at night, clubbing or playing cards, etc.
People with diabetes often say that they will get better after eating, drinking, and playing, and they will die because they are full. This is a typical behavior of this kind of people.
Such emotions and behaviors will also affect the treatment of diabetes. Due to poor blood sugar control and uncontrolled work and life, complications of diabetes come earlier, which will seriously affect the patient's quality of life and eventually form a vicious cycle.
Countermeasures
First of all, we should know that diabetes can be controlled. As long as blood sugar is controlled for a long time, complications do not occur or are delayed, and the life span and quality of life are the same as ordinary people.
With this belief, correct bad living habits and lifestyle, actively cooperate with the doctor's treatment, take medication on time, control blood sugar, and see a psychologist for psychological counseling when necessary.
3 Diabetics who are eager for quick results
As the saying goes, you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry. Eagerness for success is a kind of anxiety and impatience about diabetes, which manifests itself in the desire to get things done overnight when it comes to diabetes treatment. In addition to causing blood sugar to fluctuate like a roller coaster, people seeking medical treatment in a hurry will also be anxious and seek medical treatment everywhere, leading to confusion in medication, irregular diet, and inconsistent exercise methods, making it difficult to control blood sugar.
Countermeasures
Study more popular science articles in regular magazines and fully understand that diabetes is a chronic disease that requires long-term and persistent treatment. Correct your impatience, maintain a good attitude, and treat diabetes treatment with a normal mind.
Adhere to correct treatment methods, identify a senior diabetes doctor, keep in touch frequently, insist on regular review, and maintain blood sugar stability.
4 Diabetics who give up halfway
As the ancients said, one can make a great effort, then it will decline, and three times it will be exhausted. The same goes for the treatment of diabetes, which requires perseverance.
Giving up halfway is a lazy and degenerate emotion. After several years of treatment with lifestyle and hypoglycemic drugs, diabetic patients have good blood sugar control, feel good about themselves, and have no complications. Gradually, they become lazy and slack, relax the standard treatment of diabetes, and do not adhere to regular treatments. The re-examination eventually led to an increase in blood sugar and complications.
Countermeasures
Adjust your mood, be hospitalized regularly to adjust your blood sugar, and check whether there are complications. During the hospitalization, you can see those patients with diabetes who have complications, understand the dangers of complications, and stimulate the fighting spirit to treat diabetes.
Adhere to taking medicine on time, adhere to a correct lifestyle, keep blood sugar, blood pressure, blood lipids, blood viscosity and other indicators stable to prevent or delay the occurrence and development of complications.
5 Diabetic patients who are too entangled and care too much
This is a kind of obsessive and suspicious mentality, doubting others and life, and also pursuing perfection too much, especially demanding to distinguish right from wrong, black and white, for everything in the world.
However, it is difficult for many people and things in the world to be perfect, so these people will be entangled and hesitant in choosing diabetes treatment plans and drugs.
Care too much about the efficacy and side effects of drugs, worry about gains and losses, and ultimately miss the opportunity for treatment, resulting in uncontrollable blood sugar, premature complications, and affecting the quality of life.
Countermeasures
People with this kind of personality, especially menopausal women, find it difficult to adjust their mentality. It is recommended to seek consultation from a senior diabetes doctor when seeing a doctor. It is best to be a doctor who has a limited number of appointments every day to slowly help guide and adjust the mentality.
Go to a hospital with a diabetes professional nurse clinic and listen to the patient and detailed teachings of the professional nurses. If you still cannot adjust your mentality, you should see a psychiatrist in time and treat yourself with antipsychotic drugs if necessary.
6 Diabetic patients who blindly follow the trend and lack independent opinions
This kind of diabetic friend is indecisive in dealing with things, lacks his own opinion, and is easily influenced by others.
Blindly follow the trend in the treatment of diabetes. If you see what other people are taking to take good blood sugar-lowering drugs, you will follow them, regardless of whether these drugs are suitable for your body and condition. Or you may listen to other people's recommendations and take some health products or products that have no hypoglycemic effect. The so-called secret recipe for lowering blood sugar, in the end, the blood sugar was not controlled, but it caused damage to liver and kidney function and the occurrence of diabetic complications.
Countermeasures
We should try to avoid attending various health product sales meetings and actively participate in health education activities organized by medical staff and community health service center personnel.
In addition, people with diabetes who have this kind of personality and mentality must ask their relatives to help them make the right choice when it comes to diabetes treatment. You must go to the hospital for regular check-ups and adjust the treatment plan in a timely manner.
Diabetic patients all know the impact of diet, exercise, and drugs on blood sugar. Don’t forget the impact of mood, emotions, mentality and other psychological problems on diabetes. A good mood is also the key to determining our diabetes treatment.
Being in a good mood every day is a good medicine for treating diabetes.
