Anyone with diabetes can relate to the stress of dealing with the unrelenting daily demands of self-management. Deciding what and when to eat, measuring blood glucose, fitting in exercise, scheduling medications—you live your life to the drumbeat of these routines. You devote significant mental energy to keeping diabetes in check every hour of the day, and for many, it can lead to diabetes burnout.
Diabetes burnout, also known as diabetes distress, is when worry, frustration, and anger become overwhelming and make it difficult for people to take care of their diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). More than half of U.S. adults with diabetes fail to meet recommended targets, concluded a decades-long report evaluating diabetes
