Diabetes & Wellbeing

Wellbeing describes our happiness, confidence, physical condition and general outlook on life. It is about feeling good and taking care of yourself – things that can be neglected when juggling the demands of everyday living and particularly when you live with diabetes.
Feelings of anger, guilt, fear, discouragement and a lack of motivation about diabetes are common. Sometimes people can find life with diabetes overwhelming and have increased stress from the day to day effort of managing. “Diabetes burn out” is a common problem. You are not alone if you are experiencing these things and they are totally normal.At Diabetes Counselling Online we believe that healthy living with diabetes includes looking after your mental health and wellbeing. Having good mental health requires us to focus just as much on looking after our emotional, psychological and social health, as we do our physical health. Just as we would exercise, eat well and visit the doctor for check ups, we need to do things that enhance our mental health and wellbeing – after all, wellbeing and health go hand-in-hand.

You will find information on the following pages to assist you in caring for your wellbeing and your diabetes.