Can diabetes cause depression? What are the links between diabetes and depression?
How can I keep from being depressed over my diabetes? It's not easy. It's only logical to be depressed when you first learn you have diabetes. And all the cheerful remarks people make about how much nicer it is to have diabetes than leprosy or than being run over by a moving van or some such nonsense do no good at all. You know that it's not better than having nothing wrong with you. After all, you have to make many, many changes in your life, and at first glance, these changes all seem to be for the bad. On top of that, you feel like an outcast. You're no longer like everyone else. Of course, no one ever is like everyone else, but at the moment you feel like the town pariah, and you're certain that all your friends are going to drop you now that you have diabetes. You get the automatic "why me?" reaction. "Why should i be selected to get this rotten disease?" "Why should / be threatened with blindness or kidney failure or gangrene o...