Contracting Diabetes while on anti anxiety medication

A very interesting topic @Shaz51. 🙂

While I don't think that anti-depressant medications can directly result in someone getting diabetes, some of the side effects of the medication could contribute to a person's risk.

Most (if not all) anti-depressants can cause a person to gain weight, which in turn can contribute to someone's risk factor for developing type 2 diabetes. Genetics can play a big part in it too. My mother was a type 2 diabetic, although this was caused by poor lifestyle choices on her part. Another side effect is an increased appetite, which of course can lead to someone over-eating, or craving unhealthy foods.

I strongly recommend Michael Mosley's book "The 8 Week Blood-Sugar Diet". He talks about the root cause of type 2 diabetes being caused by over-consuming on 'simple-sugar' foods like processed carbs, pasta, cereals, etc. He explains how to remove these from your diet and replace them with 'complex carbs', like lentils and chickpeas, amoung other diet changes.

Thank you @EternalFlame, @BlueBells, @eudemonism for your comments

I will have to look that book up @EternalFlame, my husband loves cordial , lots of it

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@Shaz51

Hyperglycemia, weight gain/T2DM and dyslipidaemia are all listed side effects of antipsychotics. If you google "antipsychotic side effect chart" you can see which APs are more likely to induce these and other side effects.

ohhh i will my awesome friend @Former-Member

mr shaz is soo worried , his weiht seems to be around the middle

@Former-Member, mr shaz has the increase weight around his middle