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Diabetes mellitus is today one very common and severe disease that often affects children and adolescents. The complications with which diabetes is usually connected, leads to many social and psychological consequences that negatively influence adolescents’ life. Most specifically, adolescents with diabetes often present psychological problems, such as increased anxiety, increased anger, sadness, frustration, and depression. In the same time, the learning difficulties that can occur, the absence of confidence and the strict instructions about their diet, their exercise, and the forbidden consumption of alcohol, create a very difficult situation that adolescents cannot handle. The objective of this project is the investigation of the psychosocial consequences of diabetes mellitus to the adolescence. The research of this project includes a survey on 70 adolescents that live in Serres and have diabetes, and aims to analyzing the psychosocial consequences of diabetes mellitus in this age group. According to the results of this study, adolescents with diabetes have to confront many consequences of diabetes that affect both their daily lives and their future.