I was diagnosed with diabetes at 17 months of age.  I had been a healthy baby with generally robust health prior to my diagnosis.  I was born into a family with an older brother and my two parents, who were married and provided a stable family environment.  My father had a stable job with fairly long hours but was a present and loving father.  My mother also worked part-time as a secretary from home and had to return to that job two weeks after I was born.  I know that my mother found it difficult to juggle my older brother, myself and her work.  By the time I was one year old, she was struggling greatly and therefore couldn’t be present as a mother as much as she wanted to.  I suspect that, as such a young child, I would have felt abandoned and angry and feeling a great loss at the relative absences of my hard-working mother and father.  I did not suffer any huge traumas at that time.  However, I do know that my mother had suffered a huge loss when she was 17 months of age, which I believe was never fully processed.  As such, I am also wondering about the impact of multigenerational traumas in this process too.