Type 1 Diabetes: How A 20 Year Old Copes

When did my Health Anxiety start? I can't pin point exactly when this all started happening but I do know that everything stemmed from me having dull chest pains for a couple months. Which meant that I started to get more and more worried about what would happen to me when I start training and playing rugby again. That was Christmas time last year. So, obviously because I was stressing about it and having feelings of anxiety I was actually making my body worse and the pains got worse too.   I think I actually have had health anxiety a lot longer without realising because I have always worried about my health since I have been in and out of hospitals since birth. When I was born, I had something called Hypospadias, which in laymen terms means I didn't have a fully formed urethra. I've never been super comfortable speaking about this until recently so even I am shocked I am typing this up right now. Everything down there is all good and healthy now. I was also born with a hol...

  Music (Distraction 1) Dealing with my Diabetes takes it's toll on me and can be very draining. Which is why it is important that I distract myself sometimes to get my mind off things, to essentially DE-stress me. I think we all need distractions from life that will help us to be honest but for me one of my main ways to relax myself is listening to music. I 100% get that from my Mum, who was and still is obsessed with George Michael and Wham! Everyday on the way to school when I was young I would listen to his songs with my mum in the car and just from hearing his music I would pick up on the words and eventually would sing along with my mum. So, I always have had an ear for music since being 5 or 6 years old. Unfortunately, My Dad and Brother do not enjoy music like me and my Mum do, they think we are a little weird at times for enjoying so much music! As I have grown up I have developed more of my own taste in music. I still enjoy George Michael though! Anyways, I started to get...