They may be devilishly effective salesmen and negotiators, but diabetes cannot be cozened at the bargaining table. Lacking the emotional skills to deal with a disease they cannot overawe, unable to confront it in their traditional fashion, these folks are lost at sea. There are many other reasons why folks depart from good self-management, or fail to ever adopt it. What matters is what we need to do about it. The best response to denial is education.
Fact cures fiction.
Education shows us the consequences of departure from good self-management, but it also shows us the rewards of tight control. It shows us the constraints diabetes places on diet, but it also shows us how those constraints have eased substantially in the past few years. It shows us what we need to do to keep ourselves going, but it also shows us how that task has become easier. Education shows us the undeniable truth about diabetes.