Take Insulin
The insulin cannot be skipped and must be taken on time, but the prick hurts, charging every occasion with a worry that does not fade just because the moment is familiar. The visual support below gives the injection a calm order to rest in.
♀Inject insulin in the arm
A child gives themselves an insulin injection in the upper arm.
♀Hold the insulin pen
A child holds an insulin pen ready to take their medicine.
♀Inject insulin in the stomach
A child gives themselves an insulin injection in the stomach.
About this visual support
This is a moment that cannot be put off or skipped, and that also hurts. That combination, necessary and unpleasant at once, means the worry often begins long before the syringe is even out. The child knows it is coming, knows it must happen, and tenses up already in the waiting.
Visual support helps by removing the question marks around the moment itself. When the steps lie in a fixed order, clean, prepare, choose the spot, inject, done, the child knows exactly what happens and in what order, and where in the chain the hard part sits. The predictability does not dull the prick, but it dulls the waiting, which is often the heavier part.
Let the last step always be the same calm thing afterwards, like a hug or a moment with something the child enjoys, so the chain does not end on the pain but on something good. That fixed ending gives the eyes somewhere to aim. In the Routined app you can build the insulin sequence with your own pictures and add reminders for the right times.