Why I Wrote This
From the outside, I looked like I was doing great.
I was diagnosed with type 1 in 1999, at 21. For years, if you’d asked how I was doing, I’d have said “great.” I didn’t realize how exhausted and stressed I was. I thought living freely with T1D meant white-knuckling it.
Now I’m a clinical psychologist and diabetes care and education specialist, and I’ve spent my career helping adults with T1D handle the part that never shows up on a CGM. This book is the system I wish I’d had on day one.
Mark HeymanPhD, CDCES · The Diabetes Psychologist