Unhealthy habits/Facebook posts from friends/family that make you :( ?

[ClaraRedheart]

I know it's NOT my job to police my friends and family... However,

My aunt just posted a photo of heavily carb-laden Chinese food plates that she (diabetic) and her husband (also diabetic) are about to enjoy. She does this all the time. I have told her this is dangerous and she needs to be careful, but now I'm just biting my tongue and hoping she doesn't get a nasty ulcer.

Also have a friend with a morbidly obese 5yo child that she buys 2 adult sized meals for (have witnessed this when I was in town to visit family... , I wondered what was causing it until I saw it first hand) . It's hard not to cringe when seeing photos, knowing how the parents feed him. Said friend does crossfit and eats healthily herself, but why stuff the child like that? Her other child is obese too. Have not said anything to this one.

Of course, there are the hoards of anti-vax friends... I just bite my tongue and move along.

Just curious what the rest of you encounter on facebook or even on a daily basis. Do you feel compelled to "educate", or are you like me and keep your mouth shut and wish you'd have said something?

[Cola89]

I can't stand facebook. I'm not on it due to the high volume of annoying / senseless posts.

[applesxoranges, BSN, RN]

As for passcodes, my boyfriend does not have my passwords or passcodes. I don't know. Maybe it's because I view the devices as mine? We have been together longer than some of our friends have been together who are married.

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

My father is a horridly noncompliant type 1 diabetic with a recent 12.9% hemoglobin A1C result. His diet consists of sweets (cookies, chocolate, cheesecake), processed foods (frozen burritos, taquitos, hot link sausages, white bread, hot dogs, Ramen noodles) and fast food (Taco Bell, McDonald's, Burger King, Popeyes and Carls Jr.).

Do you think I tell him not to eat these foods? Nope. He knows his diet is grossly unhealthy, but has eaten in this manner for an entire lifetime. Nothing I say or do will change his eating habits.

On occasion he wonders aloud why his hemoglobin A1C will not decrease. I tell him it is because of the heavily processed carb-laden diet he consumes in addition to insufficient insulin coverage.

He understands, but the power of his compulsive-addictive personality compels him to continue to eat crap. I can lead a horse to water, but cannot make it drink.

[nurseinthezoo]

I don't have a fb account nor do I care what people eat.

[ItsThatJenGirl, CNA]

I wanted to broach a similar topic.

Is it just my generation & below that thinks it ok to have a passcode on your device(s) & not give it to your significant other? I don't get it. I've seen waaay too many people think it's ok to lock your phone & not let your siginificant other be able to get into it. Those people find nothing wrong with the fact that they are hiding things. Well they don't think they are hiding anything.

I have my phone locked because I have a toddler & don't want him doing who knows what on it. But my husband has the code. I just can't wrap my head around keeping something from him & thinking it's ok.

I don't know, I think this is one of those things that's going to vary between couples based on their personal boundaries. I don't even know if my husband has his phone password protected or not. I don't care either way. But that's how we work.

[crazyrn07]

Unless one of them becomes your patient, none of your business. They certainly will not listen if they aren't your patient, and I'm willing to bet they won't listen if they are.

I work with many Nurses that smoke, some that are obese, a diabetic that constantly eats whatever and then complains about blood sugar levels being high.

You can't fix stupid, so just ignore it. You'll sleep better.