February 22, 2012

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One For The Parents
My last few posts have been a pretty down-and-dirty description of my sessions with Morpheus describing many of my buried and repressed feelings about the last 40-odd years with diabetes.  If you haven't read them, I'll condense it down to a few sent (More)
Patience
** Before I get started, I wanted to share an anecdote with you about something that happened on the way home from my session with Morpheus that I described in More)
Why They Scare Me
My last post was a very brief one about "Regrets" being an upcoming topic with Morpheus and how that scared me. I thought I'd try to explain why.  **By the way, writing this is making me very anxious which probably means I need to talk about it (More)
Help with Depression
The DSMA Blog Carnival this month is about what can we do to help stop depression from hitting our community during the winter months. Believe me, it's not easy battle.  Dep (More)
Stress Management for Diabetics
Accu-check's Diabetes Link has started a series about stress management for people with diabetes. I want to share the first part and thank them for the link to my blog. More)
Double D
Diabetes + Depression. It's a constant, double struggle. You need motivation to get your life and health in order, and there's this extra weight on your shoulders pulling you down. Been there, done that... still deal with it every single day because (More)
Type What?
I've been thinking a lot before posting this. I even picked some people's brains, mostly type 2's. I don't want to offend anyone or sound resentful. It's just that sometimes I feel so invisible because I have type 2 diabetes... and apparently I'm not (More)
Here Comes Prozac
This is the story of a woman with recurrent depression and the bad habit of not taking her Prozac for as long as she should. Anyone who has suffered from clinical depression knows how the cycle goes: you feel like caca, you take the meds, you start t (More)
Renewed Motivation
You don't know how badly depression can affect your management of a chronic disease until you're out of it and you can look at the situation objectively. 2011 was a very difficult year for me, mostly because there was such a huge imbalance of chemica (More)
Keeping it Real, Making it Happen
Another year, another Social Media Summit organized by Roche. I was honored to be amongst the guests for a 2nd year and this time the experience was even better for me (not to mention I got to go to San Diego, which is beautiful and I want to visit a (More)
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