Diabetes: Caring for Your Emotions as Well as Your Health, Second Edition

By Archie Brodsky and Jerry Edelwich

Book Overview

Here is vital information about living with diabetes that your doctor often doesn't have time to discuss. This extensively revised edition of an indispensable guide covers such concerns as adjusting to the emotional impact of the disease; decisions about diet, exercise, medications and new technology; the affect of complications on marriage, family, sex, and career; and much more.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0738200212
• ISBN13: 9780738200217
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Balance
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Fine book

This book is fine. It is getting right to the point.

Addresses psychological side of disease you must cure daily.

I highly recommend this book for everyone who has, or cares about someone who has diabetes. If you ever heard, "test this, restrict that, and by the way, you'll probably end up going blind anyway" and then thought "Why should I?" this is a great eye-opener. This book offers real-life feelings and experiences of other DM-ers (both types) in support of the idea that major adjustments are being/have been required in your life, and there are emotional side-effects of those changes that most of our doctors are not trained to deal with. It has some good tips, but more importantly, helps you ask the question: exactly how is this going to effect my self-image? Great section about thinking of yourself as "good or bad" based on choices that most make without a second thought. (i.e. should I go for a run?) There are also good chapters on how parents feel when a child is diagnosed, teenagers and their control issues, and sex. I especially recommend this book for anyone with diabetes experiencing depression, whether recently diagnosed or going on the 40th anniversary. One drawback - the book is a bit old, so references to the med stuff is dated