10 Tips for Coping with Diabetes Distress

Managing diabetes can be hard. Sometimes you may feel overwhelmed. Having diabetes means that you need to check your blood sugar levels often, make healthy food choices, be physically active, remember to take your medicine, and make other good decisions about your health several times a day. In addition, you may also worry about having low or high blood sugar levels, the costs of your medicines, and developing diabetes-related complications, such as heart disease or nerve damage.

Having diabetes can be overwhelming at times. The good news is that there are things you can do to cope with diabetes and manage stress.

When all of this feels like too much to deal with, you may have something called diabetes distress. This is when all the worry, frustration, anger, and burnout makes it hard for you to take care of yourself and keep up with the daily demands of diabetes.

The good news is that there are things you can do to cope with diabetes and manage stress. Here are 10 tips that can help.