We appreciate the over 3000 readers who have requested more information on Exubera. You obviously have an intense interest in finding out the right way to use this exciting new medicine for your patients. Leonard Lipson, M.A. Psychology, LMHC takes a look at some of the psychological challenges that this …
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Ways to Talk About Depression & What You Can Offer Patients
Often we can sense that our patients are having troubles adapting to their diabetes. First they are in denial then they feel despair. It is so easy to just overlook how this affects their diabetes and just focus on the rest. Treatment options are valuable only after your patient is …
Read More »Diabetes & Depression: What’s Going On and
To quote the lyrics from a song long ago, “Something’s happening here, what it is ain’t exactly clear.” That there are connections between depression and diabetes has been established. The exact nature of those connections is under investigation. Obviously, we can’t sit around waiting for the last word on whether …
Read More »Why Examine Your “Urge?
Towards the end of the first article of this series, I suggested that you attend to the experience of the “Urge”, which is what you feel, think and do when you turn away from adherence. I didn’t give you much of an explanation of why you should be doing this, …
Read More »The Mind and Diabetes: Their Many Connections
My college’s motto was “The Truth Shall Make You Free.” It’s a noble sounding idea but, like a lot of what I learned during those years, many things in life are not quite that simple. Effective management of diabetes certainly requires truthful information. Following the motto, we would then expect …
Read More »DIABETES & DEPRESSION: Letter from a Reader: Focusing on “The Can’ts”
In my last article, “Recognizing & Approaching Depression”, I promised to provide suggestions you could make to patients struggling with depression. I will do that in my next article. For now however, I’d like to answer an email sent to Diabetes in Control from someone I regard as sad, but …
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