Depression: Or is it a Sugar High?

Depression is a medical condition associated with sadness and disinterest in activities you once enjoyed. It negatively impacts your performance at work and home, including managing your diabetes. Poor control of your diabetes increases the risks of developing diabetes complications like kidney disease, blindness, heart disease and nerve damage. Individuals with diabetes are 2 to 3 times more likely to develop depression than those without diabetes. However, most of those with depression are not diagnosed or treated. However, treatment, whether through counselling sessions, medicines, or both, have a positive outcome for the individual. And without help or intervention, depression often deteriorates and doesn't improve.

Symptoms of depression range from mild to severe and include:

• Constant Bad mood, sadness or feeling empty inside
• Boredom towards activities that you once enjoyed
• Overindulgence in food or, to the opposite end, lack of appetite
• Losing sleep or being unable to sleep, or excessive sleeping
• Unable to concentrate on activities or indecisiveness
• Constant Fatigue
• Feeling of despair, cranky, tense, or ashamed
• Unexplainable aches or pains, headaches, cramps, or digestive problems
• Suicidal thoughts or longing for death

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