Stress can result in feeling tense and irritable for only a short time, or it can progress to long-lasting symptoms of anxiety and depression that significantly interfere with a person''s sense of well being.

She was doing everything right. So Kelley Halliburton was not only distressed, but also mystified by the illness that was disrupting her life. Unfortunately for Halliburton, so were her doctors.

Type 2 diabetes ran "very strongly" in Ramona Herbert''s family. But growing up in the American Virgin Islands, she didn''t give much thought to it.

Planning and meticulous attention to detail are important to Betsy Immer – in her career as a special events coordinator, as a person managing diabetes and now, as a mom.