Denial and difficulty in Diabetes management

Denial mode in which a person and his or her family comes to a doctor is very important factor which makes patient management by their doctor difficult. It is known that very one wants to be healthy form whole time of their life but its unfortunately natural to have one or the other disease with varying intensities. Even the most healthiest person if under goes a whole body screening he or she will have something which not absolutely normal, but may be it will be in functionally acceptable condition (that we call as normal).

What we are trying to impress is that very one wants to be normal but due to there genetic make-up and its response to environmental factors and age + lifestyle one or the other disease will come-up, it is true for even diabetic patient. This aspect of disease is not acceptable to many of the patients and they go into denial mode where they don't accept that they have a problem called diabetes and even if they have it they continue to doubt the diagnosis of the same. By doing this they are actually asking for trouble. As all of us know any disease treatment involves not only medication but also lifestyle changes along with plus or minus dietary changes.

Now the Problem is here - till the patient is in denial mode for diabetes his or her dietary changes and lifestyle modifications including exercises are not going to be very disciplined and loses the initial control advantage, which could be very useful in anyone's postponement of complications of diabetes and other disease.

Here is the role of Physician to make the patient and their family members to understand the problem and get them out of the denial mode so that they can put there 100% efforts in fighting the disease and take control of the disease in their youth to live long healthily

Why diabetic need more social support?

DO diabetic need social support? I feel so why you know, this disease is one only going to affect the individual on the surface but it has an significant effect on the society in deeper aspects.

Every one is shouting, crying to stop HIV and other disease why you know it can spread from one to other which diabetes doesn't do so every one is not ready to take it as a threat to them. Every one thinks its a personal problem, even though it has an social aspect to it and all diabetic need to be on treatment in one or the other forms.

Why I am talking about social support to diabetic, how it matters the patient?

It can make a difference on the amount of money spend by individual for treatment, it can minimize the agony the preson under goes on diagnosis, helps in preventive initiatives for better living with diabetes, so many aspects which cannot be told in a go.

So in my opinion diabetes needs to be addressed in a much socialogicaly than purely on medical grounds. This will help us in reducing future burden of diabetes on human mankind.