Is caregiver burnout real? What causes it? Is it really just selfishness? How do you avoid it? What do you do if you have it?
Here’s my take on the facts and fiction of crashing out as a caregiver (some of this taken from my own experience and some from other caregivers)
I was so worried: How would Marsha be without my daily visits? What if she became depressed and agitated during my absence? Would she somehow think...
I can’t. I can’t do this anymore, I say to myself, my mantra, my cantra, the same thing I said when he first needed a wheelchair, when he first...
We are able to buffer intensely stressful experiences by repressing our emotions in the moment (sometimes subconsciously). We save “feeling our...
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