Según el diccionario de la Real Academia de la Lengua Española, dolor es una sensación molesta y aflictiva de una parte del cuerpo por causa interior o exterior; también lo define como un sentimiento de pena y congoja. Cuando se produce un diagnostico médico de diabetes en un niño, los padres experimentan sentimientos cruzados de dolor ante la pérdida de la salud de su hijo, ansiedad por lo incierto de su futuro, culpa por no haber hecho algo para evitarla o por haber hecho algo para producirla, incompetencia para manejar esta nueva situación o temor ante las posibles complicaciones. Al principio, la enfermedad afecta más al estado anímico de los padres que a los niños y desencadena una serie de mecanismos para intentar protegerse del dolor y la angustia. En la vida de cada persona, las emociones ante una determinada situación vienen reguladas por los llamados niveles de respuesta humana, así en esta madre, su primer pensamiento es el de "querer morirse" cuando toma conciencia de cómo la salud de su hijo ha estado deteriorándose ante sus ojos con señales de alerta y ella no ha sabido interpretarlas. Tras esto, surge un sentimiento de desesperación, pena, dolor y culpa que la llevó durante mucho tiempo a no perdonárselo. Al final, decide que lo que debe hacer es manejar la situación y comenzar el aprendizaje para ambos. En esta situación, querer a un hijo implica enseñarle a vivir su diabetes con la mayor normalidad posible y a integrarla en su vida diaria para seguir siendo un niño como cualquier otro.
The term "pain", according to the Royal Spanish Academy Dictionary (DRAE), is meant to make reference to a strongly unpleasant bodily sensation such as is caused by illness or injury due to either an inner or outer cause, physically or spiritually. When child diabetes takes part in any medical diagnosis, parents undergo through a series of different mood processes which are mainly conditioned by the fearful idea of loss towards their beloved ones, guilt, anxiety, regrets, uncertainties overcome most of the parents who have to, rapidly, learn how to deal with an unknown and new situation which may be translated into other different circumstances derived from the first diagnosis. At first, child diabetes affects in such different ways to parents than childs, since responsabilities have to be assumed and put into practice, adults tend to develop such uncertain ways for protecting themselves and their sons and daugthers from anxiety and pain. In every person's life, emotions overflow according to the different and various states with which the aforementioned subject may be exposed in every different stage, in other words we could say that these feelings will be conditioned to the personal skills that humans develop in other to produce rational and tedious responses to uncontrollable stimulous. Mothers tend to go under a profound process of guilt when they realize the seriousness of the matter, in this case, child diabetes, since they have been exposed to a certain amount of signals that, if taken into quick and good consideration, could have, somehow, determined previous and further clinical diagnosis, (guilt) after that, pain, sadness, desperation, anger, condition and get the parents feel worse towards the inmediacy and importancy of the new responsabilities. Nonetheless, their innate human responses give them the strength needed to deal with the recent matters and after understanding the importance of remanining together, they take conscience of the problem, not as isolated individuals which have to face concrete circumstances but as a family matter, a working team, that will overcome any situation if they consider responsabilities as a whole and work together in order to find better ways to conduct their sons and daugther's deseases. In this kind of situations, showing love and affect to your beloved ones, aid kids, as well as adults, to accept their personal health circumstances as a natural matter of fact that will allow them to get the most of their lives without considering themselves different from any other person on its surroudings.