Contents:
- Medical Video: Diabetes & Mood Swings
- Mood or moods with diabetes can change in minutes
- What is the relationship between blood sugar levels and mood in people with diabetes?
Medical Video: Diabetes & Mood Swings
Diabetes (type 1 and type 2) does not only cause serious problems with physical health. Disorders of blood sugar levels also can affect emotions, which in turn can disrupt the control of diabetes itself. Then why does the mood of people with diabetes often change drastically? Find the answer below.
Mood or moods with diabetes can change in minutes
Research conducted by the American Diabetes Association found that soaring blood sugar levels can cause extreme changes mood drastic. In fact, research shows that changes in blood sugar levels (which are often called glycemic variability) can affect the condition and quality of life of diabetic patients. So, it is not surprising that the mood of people with diabetes can drastically change in the near future.
Diabetes, especially type 2, has long been associated with depression. But so far, it is unclear how they affect each other: whether depression triggers diabetes or diabetes causes people to experience depression.
Now, a recent study in type 1 diabetes patients found that blood sugar levels that jumped over a period of time triggered the production of hormones that can cause depression.
According to Joe Solowiejczyk, a diabetes expert at Johnson & Johnson Diabetes Institute, California, United States (US), diabetes makes you always worried or anxious. This worry will be tiring for you for a long time. This can make people with diabetes feel helpless.
It is important to realize that over time patients with diabetes will experience a crisis. You will experience days where you feel very annoyed, frustrated, sad, denial and physically tired.
Diabetes not only increases the risk of serious complications, but uncontrolled diabetes can worsen depression. This will create a vicious circle.
In addition to the increased risk of depression, diabetes can also affect mood even in minutes. For example, someone who experiences low blood sugar can suddenly become irritable, even aggressive, and can act like a drunk person. This is what causes the mood of people with diabetes often change.
What is the relationship between blood sugar levels and mood in people with diabetes?
Too low blood sugar (glucose) levels are known as hypoglycemia. This condition occurs when a person uses too much insulin or does not get enough food to eat. Hypoglycemia itself is often experienced by diabetics who have to inject insulin.
To carry out its function, the brain depends on energy sources, namely glucose. When the body lacks glucose, your cognitive functions don't work well. In fact, the ability to manage emotions and moods is regulated by one of the brain's cognitive functions.
According to Dr. Vivian Fonseca of the American Diabetes Association, hyperglycemia (too high blood sugar levels) can also make you more anxious, difficult to concentrate, and easily upset. The point is, any changes in blood sugar levels outside the normal range can make you feel strange and uncomfortable.
Although diabetes and blood sugar levels can affect emotions, emotions can also affect blood sugar levels and control patients with diabetes. In a different study, researchers tested the blood sugar level of people without diabetes, and found that stress caused their blood sugar to increase significantly.
Because your mood, emotions, and blood sugar levels are very closely related, familiarize yourself with managing emotions. For example, by taking a deep breath when anxious or angry. You also have to control the symptoms of diabetes and avoid triggering the rise in blood sugar with a healthy lifestyle that your doctor recommends.
