Mental health of diabetics Diabetes is like many diseases that impose a drastic change on the lives of people affected by it. Starting from the moment the disease is diagnosed, you need to believe that this would result in many changes in your lifestyle, behavior and your daily routine. In addition, it would impose changes in the level of your psychological and mental health. It is crucial that you become aware of all aspects of these changes and their future impact on your life and to try hard to accept them in order to, hopefully, prevent any complications or negative effects that may destabilize your psychological and mental state later. It is undeniably not easy, especially in the early stages, when you find a serious responsibility suddenly falling on your shoulders, and you are unable to live with these new changes. These changes are definitely not affecting you alone, but also to your surrounding environment such as friends, family and colleagues. This is the point when you’d face your biggest challenge, which revolves mainly around how to manage diabetes with all the new equations it imposes in your life, and how to be aware and appreciative of the size of the responsibility that falls on yourself during the treatment journey. Before that, let's explore and discover how your body and mental health are affected by diabetes and vice versa.

Life-threatening complications & how to deal with them Diabetes complications are no joke. That’s why we must prevent them from happening! Life is not just about being alive, it's about being healthy so we can live the life we want. Unfortunately, there were millions of patients that lost the meaning of feeling alive when they lost their health. There has been a significant increase in the number of people affected with one of the most common diseases of our time, diabetes. And this number is rising rapidly. The reasons for this refer mainly to a group of factors that relate to people's lifestyles and attitudes toward nutrition and health. The number of diabetics in the world reached 537 million, according to the report of the International Diabetes Federation in 2021. The report also mentioned that the disease prevalence rate is the highest in the world with an increase of 2.16%, and it is projected to increase to 3.19% by 2045.

10 Tips and Advices to Prevent Diabetes Complications The danger of diabetes lies in the complications that would potentially occur afterwards. Once a person is diagnosed as a diabetic, his or her immunity starts to decline, and he’d be exposed to various types of other diseases that bring him pain, increase his need for special care, and might lead him to visit a hospital from time to time. However, there’s no need to worry. Here are a few pieces of advice that you can simply follow to decrease the chances of being affected by diabetes complications.