Diabetes mellitus among adults is quite widespread - about 4.5% of people on the planet suffer from this disease. Among children, diabetes is not so widespread - only 0.5% of young patients with such a diagnosis are known. Researchers sound the alarm - the number of patients with diabetes doubles every 10 years.
According to the International Diabetes Federation, today there are 430 million adults with this diagnosis on the planet, while almost 40% of them do not know about their illness.
General information about pathology
One name covers a whole group of endocrine diseases that are associated with different mechanisms of development. With this disease, there is no normal ability to assimilate glucose, there is a deficiency of the hormone insulin, which contributes to an increase in the quantitative indicator of sugar in blood and urine.
The disease has a chronic course and leads to abnormalities of almost all types of metabolism - fat, carbohydrate, mineral, water-salt and protein.
FROMtype 1 diabetes is often referred to as juvenilealthough it can affect people at any age. It is associated with lifelong insulin deficiency. It is believed that the causes may be autoimmune reactions that cause the destruction of beta cells, but doctors are not completely sure about this. Also, idiopathic first diabetes stands out, the causes of which cannot even be hypothetically named.
Type 2 diabetes mellitus is the most common type (up to 80% of all cases)... It is associated with the lack of the desired response of insulin-dependent tissues and cells to this hormone.
Among the causes of diabetes, abnormalities in the development of the thyroid gland, or rather, its endocrine part, and diseases of the pancreas are often called. Also, diabetes is distinguished, which developed against the background of taking medications, infections.
Gestational diabetes is distinguished, which sometimes develops in the fair sex during the happy months of waiting for a child. It appears unexpectedly and, in the vast majority of cases, just as unexpectedly disappears after childbirth.
Blood oversaturated with glucose can cause severe changes in the normal functioning of the kidneys, skin, blood vessels, and heart. The organs of vision are affected - diabetic retinopathy may develop. Pathological changes develop in the joints, brain and psyche (diabetic encephalopathy).
Psychosomatic causes
Psychosomatics has made a significant contribution to establishing the causes of the development of diabetes mellitus, assessing the disease not only from the evidence-based position of the laboratory picture and physiological changes, but also from the point of view of the mental state, which can negatively affect the work of the endocrine glands, and, in fact, becomes the trigger mechanism.
Everyone loves sugar. It replaces love itself for many, since it gives a feeling of well-being and tranquility by enhancing the production of serotonin. When adults cannot give a child as much love as he needs, they buy him sweets.
A state in which little insulin is produced in the body, and sugar is not absorbed as it should, can be interpreted as a conscious refusal of a person to share real love and feelings with the world.
Psychoanalysts who have observed tens of thousands of diabetics have deduced two psychotypes that most often suffer from diabetes mellitus:
- narcissistic people ("narcissists");
- people who do not accept the disinterestedness of love as such, do not believe in it.
Narcissists who demand from others only love, admiration, and respect for their person, usually suffer from some infantilism. They are extremely touchy, and the resentment is directed at everyone who does not understand that this world was created exclusively for him, the "narcissist." They consume more love than they can internalize, and hardly give it to others.... This habit is established mainly in childhood, and parents and grandparents make such a child themselves. He often develops type 1 diabetes.
If such a long-awaited, sleek, only child, who is carried in his arms at 8 years old by the whole family, including grandfather and grandmother, is brought to a pediatrician, usually the cause of diabetes is established vague - a genetic predisposition... The doctor does not need to prove or disprove it, besides, it completely satisfies the parents of a sick child - it relieves them of responsibility. It is unlikely that they would have been delighted with a doctor who would honestly say that the child is an egoist and he was “overfed” with love.
Instead of instilling in the child the ability to love someone completely disinterestedly, sincerely, from the bottom of their hearts, they will stuff him with pills, which will not solve the main problem at all, and diabetes will remain with him for the rest of his life.
The same type of diabetes develops in adults who are prone to being overweight and obese. Obesity itself, from the point of view of psychosomatics, means the accumulation of feelings, unrequited and unfulfilled love. In order to somehow compensate for their lack of love, such people begin to replace it with sweets.
If you see a person with extra pounds who adores chocolate or sweets, then you can be sure that the person is not all right with love. At the same time, a person can be quite attractive, but the prospect of sharing the accumulated love with the world and giving it to a person seems unsightly.
Such diabetics do not perceive criticism in their address, they are sensitive to it. They accumulate love gradually, and sometimes inflammation of the pancreas caused by viruses is a provoking factor.
Type 2 diabetes is closely associated with a reluctance to accept love from the outside world. It seems to a person that there is nothing to love him for, disinterested love does not exist, therefore glucose ceases to be absorbed in the body... Very often, this type of diabetes occurs in discouraged people, the elderly, and middle-aged people. And the reason may lie even in the events of youth, when love was rejected.
Such people often live alone or are unhappy in marriage.... They have devalued love to such an extent that their body categorically refuses to accept it as something necessary. Many are locked inside themselves... A fairly common example: a man who cannot open up to love in all sincerity, because he suspects that a woman is simply using him, wants to get his funds, a house, take possession of his property. He does not even admit the thought that he can be loved just like that.
A child has such diabetes, although rare, but possible. The reason for the occurrence will be a lack of love in his own family, where he did not receive it from his parents... Sometimes the disease starts at a later age, but the root cause remains "childish", due to the fact that a person is accustomed to being unloved from an early age. He simply does not know what it is to accept love from the outside.
It is worth noting that diabetic people often suffer from passionate natures who give all their love to their idea - innovators, scientists, revolutionaries. Almost always, they love their work with all their hearts, but they are not able to love people. However, they have a very high taste for sweets.
Women, whose men are constantly busy with their "revolutions" and business projects, are at risk of developing diabetes... Since they live in a state of severe lack of attention and love on the part of a partner, they gradually cease to believe in it, which triggers a violation of glucose uptake by the body.
Treatment
Psychotherapists warn that the treatment of diabetes should not be limited only to medications and a diet prescribed by an endocrinologist - one cannot do without a course of psychocorrection. After identifying the type of diabetes, it is important to understand which of the two behaviors led to one of the two types of pathology.
Learning to love and accept love is not easy. But it is possible, and one should strive for it. It will take enormous work both from the psychologist and from the patient himself. Love is instilled gradually, you can start with a pet.
For starters, you can get someone who can be loved without relying on love in return, for example, a hamster or fish. Cats and dogs are not suitable for type 1 diabetes therapy because they can return love in return.
An excellent solution is a bonsai tree that a person can love and care for..
The second stage is to learn to accept criticism in your address. At the same time, grievances must be lived and released, but not accumulated... This is the only way to learn to perceive yourself correctly and critically.
There is an excellent psychotherapeutic method in which a person needs to find negative qualities in himself, remember his bad deeds and tell them out loud. But this must be done in the presence of a stranger, who, unlike relatives, is not obliged to accept and justify his shortcomings in the “narcissist”.
If a child falls ill, his parents should make an effort.
It is necessary to gently squeeze the child from the throne on which he was seated, deprive him of the crown and stop indulging all his whims. A pet given to a child will help him understand that love can and should not only be taken, but also given.
In the second type of diabetes, psychosomatics is different, therefore psychocorrection will be different. It is important to show a person that the world is full of love, it is everywhere, and it must be accepted with gratitude. Here you can get a cat or a dog that knows how to love in response to human concern.
There are some psychotherapeutic techniques that can improve self-esteem. Communication with children, grandchildren, joint leisure with family and friends will also be beneficial.... Sometimes you need to talk with your partner or other relatives - you need to convince them that the diabetic in their family needs their attention and love.
The development of diabetes in a person always indicates a problem with such an important and vital feeling as love. If it is not enough, you need to be treated by increasing the amount of kind and bright feelings in life. If there is a lot of it, and it is directed at oneself, a loved one, then you need to gradually learn to give surplus to others. A person who has found a balance between receiving and giving love in his life, despite heredity, unhealthy diet and even respectful attitude to sweets, will never get diabetes.
