Three out of five people with diabetes today are not only troubled with sugar levels, but also with mental health.
A large-scale study by Diabetes UK was conducted on 8,500 people of all ages, ethnicities, and backgrounds in Great Britain to share their experiences.
The survey found that the lives of managing diabetes can affect their emotional health.
Participants say that diabetes affects their emotional well-being. Three out of five or 64 percent said they felt sometimes sad about having to live with diabetes.
One in five said they used counseling services to help them manage their diabetes.
The study also found that one in three or 33 percent of patients said diabetes prevented them or their family members, doing what they wanted.
Only 30 percent said they were able to control their diabetes.
"When I was diagnosed with diabetes, it was only seen as a medical condition.No one understood it would affect mental health, so there is no psychological support," said Lis Warren, a person with diabetes.
Lis is diabetic when he is 13 years old. It was then, he began to experience psychological problems when struggling with his diet.
He even had time to experience seizures due to low blood sugar due to insufficient carbohydrates.