Today’s DBlog Week prompt is What Brings Me Down. I’ve always had a difficult time talking about the mental health and depression side of diabetes, because frankly, I rarely do experience it. I know that it sounds like a cop out, but I truly do filter out the negative thoughts into my brain and channel them into a positive.
Diabetes is tough, that’s for sure. It’s not easy to wake up every morning not knowing if you’re going to have a good day of blood sugars or a bad day of blood sugars. Are the same carbs I ate yesterday going to act differently than they will today? Who knows. Diabetes has made me such a stronger person to be able to handle everything that it throws at me.
I use the phrase, “it could always be worse” a lot when it comes to any negative situation that comes up in my life. I believe, at least for myself, that stress only leads to more stress. So in order to eliminate stress, channel that stress into action. Meaning, take whatever is getting you down or stressing you out, and find the positive of it and do more of the positive.
That is not just something I live by when it comes to diabetes, but life in general.