Living with diabetes is hard. It's easy to get discouraged, frustrated, and burned out. Do you get depressed about having to deal with diabetes day in and day out? Do you worry about complications, get angry about the never-ending chore of self-care, and get frustrated by poor results when it feels like you've worked so hard?
If so, you may be suffering from "diabetes burnout"--and you're not alone.
This book addresses not only your frustrations, but also how burnout may contribute to poor self-care, high blood glucose, and later complications. A series of interactive questionnaires and self-evaluations guide you toward overcoming the barriers to good control. Worksheets help you to assess your motivational level and establish a successful plan of action.
Diabetes Burnout addresses such issues as:
- - Good reasons to hate blood sugar monitoring (and what to do about them)
- - Worrying about long-term complications: the uses and misuses of fear
- - Depression and diabetes: a tough combination
- Friends and family: the diabetes police
- - How stress influences diabetes (and what you can do about it)
Don't let diabetes be in charge of you. Let Diabetes Burnout show you how to take charge of diabetes.
About the Author: William H. Polonsky, PhD, CDE is President and Founder of the Behavioral Diabetes Institute, the world's first organization wholly dedicated to studying and addressing the unmet psychological needs of people with diabetes. He is also Associate Clinical Professor in Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego. He received his PhD in clinical psychology from Yale University and has served as Senior Psychologist at the Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, faculty member at Harvard Medical School, and Chairman of the National Certification Board for Diabetes Educators.
