Burnout and Diabetes

Most people with diabetes will tell you this: Everything about having it is a hassle, an annoyance and sometimes utterly overwhelming. Endless worrying over meal plans, carbohydrate counting, finger-stick checks, pills, injections, lab tests, prescriptions, supplies and doctors’ appointments are nobody’s idea of fun.

6 comments - Dec 17, 2008 -

You and everybody else alive encounter stress, daily, hourly and minute by minute. As unavoidable, inscrutable, and sometimes as aggressive as the IRS, stress is part of the human condition. It is not just a sense of being tense but is any event that causes a complex physiologic response called the "stress response."

4 comments - Jan 3, 2008 -

Recently, researchers from the University of Chicago interviewed 701 adults with diabetes in order to quantify and rank their feelings about diabetes-related complications and about the self-care necessary to avoid those complications.

4 comments - Oct 19, 2007 -

There's an ancient Greek myth about a man named Sisyphus who was cursed to roll the same rock up a hill, then see it roll down, then roll it up again, for eternity.  There's something a bit like diabetes self-care in that myth.

4 comments - Apr 13, 2007 -

Stress, anxiety, burnout—whatever you choose to call it, it’s clear that Americans have it.

0 comments - Jul 1, 2005 -

Vicki Abbott, a 65-year-old medical transcriptionist from Portland, Oregon, has taken the idea of tight diabetes control to heart. She adheres to a control regimen that is almost militaristic in its method, and her goal is perfect blood glucose.

4 comments - Sep 1, 2002 -

Is diabetes driving you crazy? If so, welcome to the club. In fact, a very large club.

0 comments - May 1, 2000 -

Do you feel overwhelmed or defeated by the responsibilities of self-care? Do you worry incessantly about your poor care, but still feel unmotivated to do something about it?

1 comment - Apr 1, 1996 -