We know diabetes is stressful so let’s jump right to identifying some of the specifics: 1. High and low blood sugar levels cause awful physical symptoms. You can’t avoid some stress during a high or low blood sugar because your body is physically out of homeostasis, it is literally in distress and the various symptoms produced are quite stressful whether it’s the sick, comatose feeling of a very high blood sugar or the shaky, weak, and disoriented feeling of a low blood sugar. 2. Diabetes is hard to hide. Hiding the fact that you have diabetes is not advised because you need to be able to check blood sugar, treat lows, and take medication as needed and you don’t want anything in the way of that. This means that you have to be ready to cope with the stress of managing a condition in front of others. It is tough to […]