DECISIONS, DECISIONS

Rob Palmer knows that when it comes to diabetes, decision fatigue is all too real

- Rob Palmer

In another year of ups and downs there are a couple of ways that diabetes management can trend. As I see it, you can focus on the external struggles (there are plenty) and allow diabetes to run away from you, or you can buckle into looking after type 1 diabetes and feel like there’s just another hurdle to clear as the world tries to get to grips with the pandemic we are hopefully getting closer to beating. I think that either of these can leave you open to feelings of exhaustion and/or frustration. There is a thing about type 1 diabetes that transcends all the obvious physical challenges and has the potential to find you collapsing in a heap. It’s known as decision fatigue. It’s real and needs to be addressed so we can validate our feelings and reset the goals that we may or may not be reaching.