Lawrence - Interview 33  

Lawrence - Interview 33

Age at Interview: 38
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 37
Background: Lawrence works in the catering trade and is married with three young children. Ethnic background/Nationality: Born in Zimbabwe.

Brief outline:Diagnosed a year ago, Lawrence takes gliclazide and losartan.

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Lawrence has wondered about the causes of his diabetes and thinks that a series of stressful events may have caused it.

 



I've no idea, I've no idea, but when I went through the web search just researching on my own in terms of trying to understand what exactly is diabetes and how you come up with it, one of the possible causes, they said that, you know, there's a myriad of causes or you just don't know. But one of the possible causes they said was, was possibly stress, so… Maybe it could've been stress I don't know, but of all the possibilities they listed, I couldn't identify with any of them except the stress element. So maybe it might've been stress but I really don't know. The doctor said officially they don't really know what causes it, they know how it occurs, the mechanism of it but, they can't really tell you what actually triggers it off, but to me, the only one I could identify was possibly stress but I couldn't say for sure.

Without wanting to pry into that, was it severe stress over a long period of time?

Well I wouldn't say over a very long period of time, but it was certainly over, you know it was a series of events over a short period of time, because you know I'd just lost my parents, and we were having problems with our visa renewals, and because of that my wife had stopped working for a while, so financially we were under severe pressure, so I'm just… Because I traced you know, my life back and that's the only period I could think of that I could have gone through stress, but other than that I've no idea, I've no idea.

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