Episode 68: Capital T (Trauma) & Align Your Wellness

@chronicallywillpodcast Season 2 Episode 68: Capital T (Trauma) & Align Your Wellness w/ @deeksha.dev_t1d
On this episode you will hear from Deeksha. Deeksha was diagnosed T1D on World Diabetes Day Nov 14, 2000, at age 4.

She is a trained Psychologist that works with People living with Diabetes, especially caregivers.
This year she started her own organization - Align Your Wellness Foundation that will focus on mental health & diabetes.
Originally, she wanted to go to school for architecture, but her brother saw something else in her. She did not initially believe him.
Eventually, she interned at the same hospital she was diagnosed in & ended up counseling a newly diagnosed T1D & his parents. Life came full circle for her.
Being diagnosed so young, Deeksha acknowledges her great support system of caregivers & how they learned & took on diabetes just as she did. This includes her parents & her brother.
In India, the most populated region in the world of people living with diabetes, there is simply not enough endocrinologists to cover the amount of people living with diabetes. Doctors are doing as much as they can in the limited time they have for each patient.
In public clinics, one might spend an entire day waiting to be seen. The discrepancy in care does go hand in hand with affordability.
Deeksha & her peer advocates are doing everything they can to get things affordable to all in India & insulin free for all.
Currently, there is a 18% tax on CGM'S as if it is a luxury when it is a necessity.
There is a current petition to remove the tax on CGM's, insulin or any consumable.
Deeksha wants everyone to know that living with T1D will be a hell of a roller coaster ride, but it isn't a bad life with diabetes, learn diabetes & don't try to
absorb all of the information at once, Community will guide you through the little phases of darkness because there is light at the end of tunnel & there's this very big garden & family that you will find support in when it comes to T1D. Worry a little, learn more.

Follow Deeksha on Instagram @deeksha.dev_t1d