Depressing Diabetes

Abstract

When I decided to write about diabetes and depression I mulled it over for a while and it seemed to me that certain things were self-evident. Of course, when you have diabetes you get depressed. Nobody wants to be sick. There is an exception to illness-awareness depression - the small child who doesn’t know that all small children don’t get their fingers stuck for blood, don’t get injections before they eat, and can eat whatever they want, whenever they want. These children don’t get depressed over their condition. Knowledge of normalcy comes soon enough.