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My 6 year old grandson has had diabetes for a month. and short term. Since he has started insulin he has became really overactive, he talks back to you, and he does not listen. Before he was well mannered and behaved real good. Could this be coming from the insulin?

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I’m worried about my sister. I’m afraid she may be pretending to have diabetes. After our parents divorced last year (I’m 15 and my sister is 10) she has been desperate for attention. Her best friend has diabetes, so she knows a little about the disease.

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My wife has type 1 diabetes and uses an insulin pump, but she is not checking her blood sugar and refuses to watch her diet. She is very moody and sometimes seems depressed. How can I help her take better care of herself?

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My seven year old daughter, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes about eight months ago, has been making comments a lot lately about not wanting to live and that she just can’t take it anymore. I am becoming really concerned. Should I seek professional counseling for her?

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My two year old daughter was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes two months ago. Would high blood sugars in excess of 200 mg/dl [11.1 mmol/L] before bedtime cause her to be more hyperactive and not want to go to sleep?

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I am starting to think that maybe I am depressed, but I don’t want to talk to my doctor because I am afraid that he will put me on “happy pills” and I would rather not have that artificial happiness. However, I am really starting to feel like there is no other way to beat this. How, if at all, do anti-depressants affect diabetes?

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My 58 year old husband, who has type 2 diabetes, falls flat asleep for one-half to two hours every time he eats. He does this at home, restaurants, alone, or with groups, and he is also having extreme fits of anger, mood swings,and personality changes. He just had a check-up, and his sugar levels are okay. Is this normal?

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I want to know why you think your site has any chance of helping anyone. I’m 15 and I got diabetes last year for Christmas. I hate it, and I am in a bad mental condition. I just don’t care about anything anymore. I hate school and life.

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In the early years, I was very religious, but over the last five to ten years, I’ve put diabetes on the back burner. Recently, I’ve become angry about my disease, thinking that it has prevented me from achieving certain goals. It has affected my perceptions in a negative way. I wonder how things may have been different without diabetes, and I yearn for a resolution to the problem.

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This is a cry for help. I’m 13 years old, and I think I might be dying because of my diabetes. My mom stopped helping me control my disease when I was 11 because she thought I was mature enough to handle it myself, but she was wrong.

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