A few days ago Elsa wrote me for the first time. “I need help,” she wrote. “I am at a point in my life that if I regularly checked my blood and exercised, I could still turn things around – but I don't know why I don’t care. I get scared when I see the doc, and then after several weeks I go back to my old habits.”
Elsa’s story is a sad one, but she beautifully captures the diabetes dilemma. My best advice to her – and to you – is to read Diabetes Burnout: What To Do When You Can't Take It Anymore, by William H. Polonsky and published by the American Diabetes Association. The other outstanding resource is Psyching Out Diabetes : A Positive Approach to Your Negative Emotions by Richard L. Rubin and my old friends June Biermann and Barbara Toohey and published by McGraw-Hill.
Of course you will get burned out! It’s what you do next that counts.
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