By Amanda Singleton — 2020
Ways to stay afloat when you are providing care for multiple people at the same time
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Includes Frequently Asked Questions about how to communicate and cope.
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The preeminent sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild discusses the control over one’s feelings needed to go to work every day during a pandemic.
Emotional labor is a paid chore, not a household chore.
When physicians help patients come to the profound revelation that childhood adversity plays a role in the chronic illnesses they face now, they help them to heal physically and emotionally at last.
Some people who have to be responsible for their siblings or parents as children grow up to be compulsive caretakers.
How do you know when it’s time to take your autistic, bipolar twelve-year-old daughter to the psych ward?
It’s the rare person who doesn’t need help coping with the stress, fatigue, and frustrations that chronic fatigue syndrome can bring. As a caregiver, you’ll need to learn all you can about chronic fatigue support.
How to keep it in check by tolerating ambivalence, maintaining balance and staying realistic.
Caring for a loved one with dementia, such as Alzheimer’s disease, can be a difficult task. Often this task falls to a family member, and as the disease progresses, the care needs become greater, requiring more hours of the caregiver’s time.
As caregivers, we need to be more than problem solvers. We need to be portals to a larger possibility.