People with diabetes have anxiety about sugar control. What should people with diabetes and their families do?
In fact, everyone will have anxiety and stress. This is a normal emotional reaction. However, if anxiety or stress is excessive, some physical discomfort will occur and even lead to disease.
When an anxiety disorder occurs, we should deal with it head-on rather than avoid it. At this time, professionals need to provide medical treatment according to the individual situation.
In addition, when some of the following situations occur, you may also need to go to the psychosomatic medicine department for treatment. You may gain new insights.
1. Personality changes or impulsive behavior: Some people used to be easy-going and patient, but after suffering from diabetes, they become excited, irritable, and often get into arguments with others.
2. Sleep changes: Some people always have difficulty falling asleep or wake up early. Many people attribute these to older age and poor sleep. If you only have poor sleep once or twice occasionally, it is not a big problem, but if you sleep for a long time If it's not good, you need to find out the reason. It may be caused by anxiety.
Experts point out that anxiety disorders are very common among diabetic patients, and we should have a correct understanding and handling of anxiety, because it is related to our blood sugar control.
In addition to seeking help from relevant professional doctors, people with diabetes and their families can do the following:
1. Diabetes is not scary, but learning knowledge is important:
Diabetes is a chronic disease that cannot be completely cured, but as long as it is treated scientifically, you can still live a good life. Many people think of diabetes as a terrible disease. They think that if you have diabetes, you have to become an "ascetic" and you can't eat this or that. You can't even eat enough. Some people have heard that diabetes can cause blindness in the eyes and rotten feet. In the end, their legs were amputated, so they were under great psychological pressure after getting diabetes.
It is precisely because they do not have a systematic and comprehensive understanding of diabetes and only understand the disease one-sidedly from what they have seen and heard. Therefore, they are under great psychological pressure after suffering from diabetes. They also lack a correct understanding of diabetes treatment and do not understand the instructions given by doctors. The treatment plan is not understood, so compliance is low, such as not taking medicines as prescribed, irregular follow-up visits, and failure to screen for complications, etc.
This is very detrimental to blood sugar control, making treatment ineffective, causing greater psychological stress, and even emotional loss.
2. Understanding and support from family and society is important
Everyone gets sick, but the diseases we suffer from are different. Some diseases can be cured, while some chronic diseases cannot be cured and require lifelong treatment.
Nowadays, diabetes has become a chronic disease with high incidence. In addition to correct drug treatment, diabetic patients must also intervene in many aspects closely related to life, such as controlling diet and increasing exercise. As family members of diabetic patients, we not only need to encourage and support the patient in treatment, but also understand and cooperate with the patient's needs in terms of life details, such as family members choosing foods similar to them, exercising together, etc., so that diabetic patients do not feel isolated.
Take diet control as an example. Having diabetes does not mean you have to be an ascetic. A scientific and reasonable diabetes diet is a healthy diet, which means more appropriate energy, more reasonable combinations, and more comprehensive nutrition. It is beneficial and harmless for healthy people to eat such food.
Therefore, do not cook separate meals for diabetic patients. Eating the same meals for everyone is not only conducive to the treatment of the patient's disease, but also helps to prevent family members from developing diabetes.
Life lies in exercise. Participating in exercise with family members and diabetic patients not only improves the patients' enthusiasm, but also prevents them from gaining weight and avoids some chronic diseases related to obesity.
The small details of life mentioned above may seem simple, but they are actually of great help to diabetic patients.
