SCENARIO 1: Puan Noraidah does not take the diabetes medication her doctor prescribes. She continues to eat indiscriminately, dismissing advice about her fat and sugar intake. Neither does she bother to exercise and lose weight. All in all, she doesn’t care that she has diabetes.
Scenario 2: Mr Lee, on the other hand, went into complete depression when he was diagnosed with diabetes. For some reason, he was convinced that having a chronic disease was practically a death sentence. Rather than listen to his doctor’s advice, he began obsessing with the possibility of suffering nerve damage, going blind, getting his foot amputated ? or worse, dying of a serious complication like a heart attack, stroke or kidney failure.
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