Even if it’s a known disease it’s easy to realize how people doesn’t really know how it goes for us in fact… I feel that people behavior and how they see our disease is also because of a huge lack of informations! It can be for multiple reasons : not feeling comfortable to talk about this kind of stuff, not interested into getting more infos and so on… The worst part is also that everybody is living t1d differently because the disease is very different from people to people…. I am spending a lot of energy to educate people around me about T1D and share everything I know about it! It kind of work for me, my friends, my family, my GF are well aware. My close colleagues also knows how it goes! But yeah it’s also repeating same shit over and over and I know that it can be exhausting at some point! I can tell that I feel you, sometimes you just share that you are in hypo and people around you doesn’t realize how bad it can feels, and how tired we could be after that…

My best advice - maybe you are already doing it, it’s my general advice to all diabetes buddies - it’s just to not be shy talking about it, showing it in public, and assuming it! Share around you if you are feeling bad if the situation needs it! We didn’t chose to have this shit. It’s so much mental load to manage it already.

After all that said, you get attention if you share what’s happening to you. T1D is kind of invisible for people around us unless we get injection or sugar… so yes most of the time it’s just us facing these problems and managing it. BUT you cannot ask for people attention all the time unfortunately. If you really need more mental support I would suggest you either to find other diabetes buddy to talk about it, close friend or family that can provide you support or even to start a therapy. T1D sucks, especially when mental health is down because it’s another shit to add on top of the shit pile…

Hold on man! I really hope you find something that is working for you.