“It was lurking in my body like a ticking time bomb I couldn’t escape.”
The trauma of my diabetes diagnosis began to manifest in the perfect storm of adolescence. I was experiencing new stressors: my mum’sstruggles, and, having managed my own care for a couple years now, diabetes burnout – a term used to describe feeling emotionally fried by the around-the-clock management.
I will probably experience complications like going blind and kidney failure by the time I’m 30. I shouldn’t have children because they will be sick and hate me. I will die young. and anxiety consumed me. Intrusive thoughts and a sense of impending doom kept me up at night as I googled phrases like “average life expectancy female type 1 diabetic.”Ali Pantony
Belgique Dernières Nouvelles, Belgique Actualités
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