Research News

By Scott Coulter I've always had a tricky relationship with diabetes research. Part of me wants to know the latest research toward a cure — it's interesting to hear the ideas that are being explored; it's obviously something I hope for; and I believe in keeping myself well informed. But then there's the other side of the equation — the fact that I have to live with diabetes on a daily basis, and dreaming about a cure that doesn't exist leaves me right back where I started, managing a chronic disease 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with no break. I don't want to put energy toward hoping for something that is merely a fantasy. This is what is so tricky about following research news for me — managing this tension between what IS and what COULD BE. Ultimately, I believe this fundamental tension between what is and what could be, should be, or should NOT be is the root of all of our suffering. I often think of the quote from Shakespeare (I forget which play it was), "nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." In other words, the source of our unhappiness, the source of our suffering, is within our own thoughts. And that's an idea that's hard to accept for most of us. We tend to think that something bad happens OUTSIDE of ourselves, and then our thoughts are simply reflecting that BAD THING. We assign the source of our suffering to the event, to this external thing beyond our control. But the truth is that our suffering is generated in the thoughts ...
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