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At your last appointment with your diabetes healthcare provider, did they ask about your mental/emotional wellbeing?
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I meant to answer “yes” but for some reason it registered as “other”. Oh well. The NP I see for endocrine f/u has known me for a long time and she always asks how my life is going and what kind of psychological and emotional stressors I am up against and how am I dealing with whatever is going on.
I was diagnosed in 1970, so I had no idea what my BG was for years. If I had a honeymoon period I didn’t know,it. I
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Medical personel always enter the room saying “How are you today”? I answered I am surviving, but I wouldn’t call it living. The NP and RN said that’s a good answer because we could all say the same.
I get asked “How are you doing?” I think that encompasses how my mental health is. I am pretty open so I tell her when things are hard mentally and physically.
I andered yes… I don’t think it was a deliberate as… “how is you mental health?” But more like… “how are you doing?”
I was asked if I was feeling depressed and a series of other questions.
My PCP is a friend as well as a “provider “. He always asks about what’s going on in my life.
My Endo usually does, but with COVID I’m assuming and that I have an excellent health care team he didn’t to make the appointment take less time.
I answered yes because I believe it’s a generic question that most providers now have on your sign in paperwork.
The answer is sort of an allusion to mental heath, not very specific, but that’s all I need. Diabetes can affect mental health, but I went through some of that years ago, adjusted ok, and now it’s just a part of life with Type 1.
My endocrinologist does ask indirectly which usually sounds like, how are you doing, feeling and then I will respond accordingly. My numbers over the last 15 or so years have been excellent yet my mindset is still in a depressed state which of course is brought on by several things. My doctor recommended seeing a specialist but that has not had any significant impact been suffering with this now for over 12 years.
Don’t remember as she usually does and I haven’t had any issues except concerns about Covid
They never do. But, maybe I don’t give them the chance. I often announce when I have been stressed out and that it affects my bs in inconsistent ways. This is not the same as depression.
Doesn’t bother anymore… already knows I am nuts
They always greet me with “how are you doing today?” Does that count? I said no but it pin reflection that opens the door to conversation.
Yes. And have had some that do screening before each visit. Very cool that doctors are starting to realize that a chronic condition is mainly mental
None of my diabetes healthcare providers have EVER asked me about my mental/emotional wellbeing … and that’s over the last 40+ years.
In England there is a standard, nuanced, assessment questionnaire, and I have filled these in at my hospital appointments for many years. 2020 I had one appointment, late March, and I was asked how I was bearing up. I can’t remember what I said. Probably “fine”. What I would say now: remember that thing I told you about, that psychologist who says some people treat t1d as a thief, and some as a lodger? Well, t1d is still a lodger, but Covid-19 is a thief”.