Insulin treatment is one of the common treatments for diabetes. However, when investigating the insulin treatment status of patients with type 2 diabetes, it was found that many patients with diabetes have psychological and therapeutic misunderstandings, which seriously affects the effect of treatment.
When we classified the psychology of people with diabetes, we found that the psychology of people with diabetes regarding insulin can be divided into four categories:
1. Suspicion. Almost half of young people with diabetes believe that using insulin will lead to addiction and lifelong dependence. They are worried about becoming dependent diabetes. Some even think that insulin is a drug.
"I suffer from type 2 diabetes, so there is no need to take insulin"; "If you take insulin, you will become insulin dependent in the future"; some even think that "after taking insulin, you will become 'addicted' and will never be able to quit again." "Falled off", these are all wrong concepts. In fact, the use of insulin by people with type 2 diabetes can effectively control blood sugar concentration, eliminate the "glucose toxicity" caused by hyperglycemia, help restore the function of their own pancreatic islets, promote the absorption and utilization of glucose, and improve abnormal fat metabolism. , prevent atherosclerosis, thereby reducing the complications of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
2. Fear. Nearly one-third of patients are afraid of pain when injecting insulin, and some are afraid that they will not be able to withdraw the insulin, so they do everything possible to resist injecting insulin.
In fact, insulin is secreted by human pancreatic islet beta cells and is the only hormone in the body that has a blood sugar-lowering effect. Insulin treatment can best control the patient's condition, maintain normal metabolic balance of sugar, protein, fat, water, salt and acid-base, prevent or delay the occurrence and development of acute and chronic complications of diabetes, and enable diabetic patients to maintain good health Insulin injection is an important means of diabetes treatment to maintain normal growth, life and work.
3. Fear of discrimination. Some people with diabetes worry that being seen injecting insulin before eating will affect their social image and status, and may even lead to discrimination. In fact, diabetes is not an infectious disease. As long as it is well controlled, you can live a healthy life without affecting other people or one's social image.
4. Pessimistic and disappointed mentality. Some diabetes patients believe that treatment with insulin indicates that the disease has reached an advanced stage, which means that work and life can no longer be carried out normally, and they have lost confidence in life and treatment. This is also wrong. For diabetics, whether long-term application of insulin is needed depends on the function of one's own pancreatic islet cells and has nothing to do with insulin. Some people with diabetes do need to inject insulin for life. The reason why they cannot stop taking insulin is because their own pancreatic islet secretion function has seriously failed, and insulin supplementation is necessary for their condition.
