Diabetes and Mental Health Conditions: New on HealthyPlace

Here's what's happening on the HealthyPlace site this week:

• Diabetes and Mental Health Conditions: New on HealthyPlace
• From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs
• Video: Bipolar and Ghosting: Why We Do It
• Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans
• Mental Health Quote

Diabetes and Mental Health Conditions: New on HealthyPlace

We’ve updated and expanded our diabetes information on HealthyPlace. Why? If you live with any mental health condition, you might be at an increased risk of developing diabetes. Likewise, if you have diabetes, you might be at an increased risk of developing a mental health condition.

Studies are showing that the link between mental health and diabetes is strong:

• Americans, especially minorities, with a severe mental illness such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder are more than twice as likely than others to develop type 2 diabetes.
• In another study, 28 percent of participants with severe mental illness had type 2 diabetes; in contrast, 12 percent of the general population has type 2 diabetes.

Diabetes affects a wide variety of mental health conditions, including—but not limited to—illnesses like

• ADHD
• Addiction
• Anxiety
• Bipolar disorder
• Depression
• OCD
• Schizophrenia

Mental health conditions and diabetes are each difficult to live with and manage. Combine them and treating them can be daunting. Mental illnesses are overwhelming, can cause exhaustion or a sense of being wired, and can zap either motivation or concentration (or both) needed to meet the demands of diabetes care. Likewise, diabetes can impact both brain chemistry and lifestyle, thus contributing to and worsening mental health conditions. (Diabetes and Mental Health: How One Affects the Other. )

Mental health conditions and diabetes have a profound impact on each other, and together they impact our total health and wellbeing. Discover comprehensive information on diabetes and the diabetes and mental health connection.

Related Articles Dealing with Diabetes and Mental Health

• What is Diabetes?
• Some Sobering Facts About Diabetes
• Four Ways To Prevent Diabetes When You Live With a Mental Illness
• The Relationship Between Diabetes and Mental Health
• Diabetes and Anxiety: There’s Plenty to Be Anxious About
• Diabetes of the Brain: How Diabetes Affect the Brain

Your Thoughts

Today's Question: If you live with a mental health condition and diabetes, what do you find particularly challenging? We invite you to participate by sharing your thoughts, experiences, and knowledge on the HealthyPlace Facebook page and on the HealthyPlace Google+ page.

From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs

On all our blogs, your comments and observations are welcomed.

• Experiencing Bipolar Stigma on a Daily Basis
• My Schizophrenia Diagnosis: I'm Schizophrenic, Not Weak
• Why Small Talk Is a Big Deal
• Think Small Improvements to Reduce Anxiety
• 3 Mental Illness Myths Common in Fiction
• What Stress in Bipolar Feels Like and What to Do About It
• How I Got Through the Holidays with Schizoaffective Disorder
• Finding Gray in Black-and-White Thinking in Complex PTSD
• Anxiety Therapy: 5 Benefits of Counseling for Anxiety
• Why My Mental Illness Recovery Is Important to Me
• Music as Anxiety Relief
• Victim Blaming: 5 Reasons Why Verbal Abuse is Not Your Fault

Feel free to share your thoughts and comments at the bottom of any blog post. And visit the mental health blogs homepage for the latest posts.

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From HealthyPlace YouTube Channel

I'm Hannah. I Have Bipolar 2

Bipolar and Ghosting: Why We Do It

Why would someone with bipolar disorder engage in ghosting? Why would they be ghosting someone they’ve been in a seemingly good relationship with?. (Watch Hannah and subscribe to the HealthyPlace YouTube channel for more great mental health videos.)

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Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans

Here are the top 3 mental health articles HealthyPlace Facebook fans are recommending you read:

1. Three Common Myths About Borderline Personality Disorder
2. Borderline and Relationships: The Fear of Abandonment
3. ADHD and Video Games: Will Gaming Harm Your Child with ADHD?

If you're not already, I hope you'll join us/like us on Facebook too. There are a lot of wonderful, supportive people there.

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Mental Health Quote

"Never go back what you already rescued yourself from."

Read more abuse quotes.

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