Diabetes Sucks and You Can Handle It: Your Guide to Managing the Emotional Challenges of T1D

by Mark Heyman

An actionable toolkit to help you manage the emotional burden of type 1 diabetes written by a psychologist who knows firsthand how much T1D sucks.

Life with T1D is unpredictable and filled with never-ending work, leading to overwhelm and burnout. Diabetes gets even more challenging when you believe you can’t handle this stress.

In this guide to navigating the emotional challenges of T1D, Dr. Mark Heyman shows how life becomes easier when you accept that T1D sucks AND believe you can handle it. In this book, you’

• Find out how it’s easier to manage the stress of T1D when you stop trying to control it
• Discover how you probably make T1D more challenging than it needs to be
• Master skills to help you handle the emotional burden of T1D

Dr. Mark shares proven tools and real-life stories of others who have learned to handle the stress of T1D to provide hope for anyone struggling with this chronic condition.

Are you ready for more freedom and flexibility in your life with T1D? This book holds the key.

Genres: Nonfiction

218 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 17, 2022

Reviews

[Jennifer Rae · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not a ton of new information for someone who has lived with T1D for awhile, but I can see how this could be helpful for some!

[Martín Q. · Rating 2 out of 5]

I've suffered from type 1 diabetes since I was 3 years old. A woman I dated gave me this book the day we broke up, so I had no desire to read it for a long while, and self-help books aren't really my thing anyway. But, finally, I decided to pick this up and give it a shot.

It was a very surface-level approach to managing T1D. It seems as if it was written for people who were diagnosed fairly recently. Although the advice was generally good, its lack of depth disappointed me. The book also only briefly touched on the issues that I believe cause the most struggle: dealing with health insurance (or lack thereof), and the extreme financial strain it puts on people, i.e.: having to ration insulin and other supplies and/or driving to Mexico for cheaper supplies (both if which I've had to do on more than 1 occasion). I think he could have touched more on the absolute need for advocacy at the public policy level also. There was only 1 paragraph that touched on that.

[Rachael Chalcraft · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think this is exactly the book I needed when I was younger.
I've been a T1D for nearly 28 years and have been through some pretty intense periods of burnout. This book would've been a great help to me when I was in that state of mind.

[Emily Lofstrand · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very easy read, one that I will revisit as I raise my newly diagnosed 9 year old daughter and pass along to her one day. Going to see if I can get my husband who also has T1D to read now. I think it’ll show him how well he already handles it but also give him some great tools.

[Blair Burns · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book for TID patients young and old - newly diagnosed and seasoned. Great self lead exercises to help you retrain your brain into handling diabetes with a positive outlook. I have had T1D for 34 years - and this taught me some new tools - great read for changing your outlook on life with T1D.

[Lucy Broadbent · Rating 5 out of 5]

Motivational for anyone with type 1 diabetes.

[Lana · Rating 5 out of 5]

As a non type 1 living with a type 1 this book is an essential.