Sharing Knowledge Helps Everyone Heal
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Summary: Seeking to uncover shared insights among those with diabetes, I invite stories on diabetes origins and emotional climates at diagnosis. Reflecting on my own childhood and familial dynamics, I explore possible emotional triggers. Join me in building a collective understanding of this condition’s roots and potential pathways to healing. Share your story below.
I truly believe that, as a community of diabetics, we have the collective knowledge to be able to heal this condition. I believe we already have the answer, if only we truly look at what we already know.
With that thought in mind, I would really like to start collating the stories of diabetes. How did you develop it? What does your intuition say caused it? As I’ve been reading more and more on the human body and the impact of consciousness, I would also really like to know about the emotional climate that you were in at the time it happened. What were you feeling? Which emotions were floating around your environment at the time? What is your story?
If you feel able to share, please do so below in the comments. I will then watch out for themes and see if I can gather more clues on the pattern or patterns that push diabetes into existence in each of us.
I’ll go first…
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.
I’d love to hear your stories! What elements do we all share? If you can, please leave your story below in the comments and let’s build the answer together…
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Natalie is a blogger with Type 1 Diabetes. Natalie's special gifts are questioning the status quo and being a rebel. She is using these gifts to question medical 'knowledge' and find a true cure for Type 1 Diabetes.
