{"id":14609,"date":"2019-12-23T20:56:56","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T20:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/squad\/?p=14609"},"modified":"2019-12-23T20:56:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T20:56:56","slug":"diabetes-may-cause-anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/diabetes\/diabetes-may-cause-anxiety\/","title":{"rendered":"Diabetes May Cause Anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A 2013 meta-analysis of 12,626 people found a link between diabetes and anxiety. Estimates report that anxiety affects approximately 40% of diabetics. But what would cause the correlation between the two? Healthcare professionals put together a list of ways diabetes may cause or contribute to anxiety.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Possible causes<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For people with diabetes, it can be both challenging and stressful to not only manage their blood sugar but also ensure that it stays in a healthy range. This includes avoiding certain foods, timing insulin doses, tracking blood sugar throughout the day and paying attention to specific food ingredients.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition, some diabetics worry frequently that their prognosis may worsen, causing more debilitating symptoms, such as blindness, foot damage, kidney damage, Alzheimer\u2019s and even death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A 2015 study on animals also found that even just a few episodes of hypoglycemia can trigger chemical and metabolic changes that trigger the part of the brain that processes anxiety. Just look at the shared symptoms between hypoglycemia and anxiety:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> rapid heartbeat<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> fatigue<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> headaches<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> lightheadedness<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> irritability<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> attention struggles<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><b>Diagnosing diabetes and anxiety<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While diabetes can be diagnosed using blood tests\u2014such as A1C, glucose tolerance, fasting blood sugar or a random blood sugar test, anxiety isn\u2019t always so easy to determine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Typically, a doctor, psychiatrist or psychotherapist will ask you to fill out a questionnaire detailing your physical and psychological symptoms, or they may ask you questions in person.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Treating anxiety<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">While treating diabetes generally includes medication, weight loss, exercise, nutritional guidance and blood sugar monitoring, treating anxiety isn\u2019t always as simple as taking a pill.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Diabetics with anxiety may be encouraged to participate in individual counseling or group therapy, to make lifestyle changes (such as adding meditation or yoga or other forms of exercise), and\/or enrolling in cognitive behavioral therapy or other therapy techniques.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Other precautions that may help both diabetes and anxiety include avoiding recreational drugs, limiting or avoiding alcohol and getting plenty of sleep.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 2013 meta-analysis of 12,626 people found a link between diabetes and anxiety. Estimates report that anxiety affects approximately 40% of diabetics. But what would cause the correlation between the two? Healthcare professionals put together a list of ways diabetes may cause or contribute to anxiety.\u00a0 Possible causes For people with diabetes, it can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[753],"tags":[766,714],"class_list":["post-14609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diabetes","tag-anxiety","tag-diabetes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}