Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a psycho-social intervention. This aims to reduce symptoms of various mental health conditions, including depression and anxiety disorders. Many health advancements have been made using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Recently, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) (diabetes.com) has seen that patients with type 1 and type 2 diabetes experienced…
Partners of individuals with type 2 diabetes had greater reductions in diabetes distress, some improvements in diastolic blood pressure and greater increases in marital satisfaction at four and eight months after engaging in a couples intervention that involved behavior change calls focusing on partner collaboration, communication and support, compared with…
Living with Diabetes Do you live with diabetes? Want to talk with someone who gets it? I am a health psychologist who works with people with diabetes and I live with the disease. I understand that managing the daily physical and emotional demands of diabetes can be challenging, to say…
Numerous studies have shown a link between depression and diabetes. A recent study showed that the combination of depression and diabetes negatively affect the health of diabetic patients in numerous ways. A random sample of patients with diabetes were assessed for symptoms of depression. Rates of myocardial infarction and stress…
Several studies show a link between diabetes and depression. Depression often occurs with many chronic health conditions, although we don’t know why. With diabetes, depression can impact self-care and diabetes management, and diabetes management can impact depression. There is also research showing that depression is a precursor to type II…
New findings support the existence of an association between depression and a range of subtypes of heart disease, stroke and diabetes. The associations between anxiety and coronary heart disease are robust and there is emerging evidence of associations of anxiety with stroke and diabetes. (Kate M. Scott, Curr Opin Psychiatry….
…according to a new viewpoint published online July 10 in the Journal of the American Medical Association… rates of major depressive disorder, which affects 6.7% of adults in the United States, are 2 times greater among individuals with type 1 or type 2 diabetes across a lifespan. And depression is…
The British Journal of Diabetes and Vascular Disease. 2014;14(2):60-63 research found that “One third of a general diabetes outpatient cohort have general anxiety and anxiety to the finger prick method for glucose testing.” Therapy can help anxiety without meds. Mental health and physical health are both a part of the…
Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston performed a randomized controlled trial to test cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) for adherence and depression in 87 adults with unipolar depression and uncontrolled type 2 diabetes. The researchers concluded that CBT has enduring and clinically meaningful benefits for diabetes self-management and glycemic control in adults with…
