After 25 years of research and analysis, a team of American scientists and psychiatrists has finally concluded that diabetic patients are twice as likely as non-diabetics to suffer from depression. Diabetes is disease leading to metabolic complications, which is characterized by raised blood sugar levels. The primary cause of this disorder is the inability of human body to burn or breakdown sugar to produce energy due to lack of insulin, vitamins or minerals. Because sugar cannot be burnt to give energy the body keeps demanding for more food consumption of which further increases the level of blood sugar and hence this forms a vicious cycle. Hence a diabetic patient feels persistent hunger. This condition of excessive thirst, urination and hunger are called polydipsia, polyuria and polyphagia or the polys of diabetes.

Doctors have long believed and assumed that diabetes can bring on depression because of the difficulties it causes in the lives of sufferers. Emotional eating further worsens the condition. Fatigue accompanied with diabetes leads to inactivity and inactivity and overeating may lead to depression. Diabetics who are depressed should seek treatment for both maladies according to researchers. The symptoms of diabetes are sometimes superimposed with the symptoms of its complications. For instance there could be symptoms of heart, kidney, eye, brain or nerve disease, which could come alongside the symptoms of diabetes. More and more people are becoming affected by diabetes every year. There is no need to get depressed once you are diagnosed with diabetes.

How to lead a normal lifestyle?
There are millions of people who lead a normal lifestyle even though they are diabetic. A change in lifestyle, improvement in diet, proper exercise and rest habits, avoiding smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol and the use of appropriate medication under the guidance of a diabetologist and early identification of symptoms of depression can go a long way in keeping you healthy and happy.