By Janie McQueen — 2020
Hiring outside help can bring respite for everyone’s benefit.
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Adults with disabilities report experiencing frequent mental distress almost 5 times as often as adults without disabilities.
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Caring for a loved one can be stressful, and that stress can have a considerable impact on a caregiver’s personal health and well-being.
Here are just some of the pressures that many caregivers face.
When Robert Bruce, of El Dorado, Calif., was diagnosed in March 2011 with stage-4 melanoma, he already had tumors on his head, lungs, ribs and lymph nodes. Bruce said his cancer wasn’t a case of his body betraying him, but actually the reverse: “I betrayed my own body.”
Mary Dawson, 72, has been living with kidney cancer now for more than a decade, which may have been avoided if it was caught earlier
Just as cancer affects your physical health, it can bring up a wide range of feelings you’re not used to dealing with. It can also make existing feelings seem more intense. They may change daily, hourly, or even minute to minute.
Science is showing how immersion in nature speeds healing and acts as an antidote for many ailments.
The pandemic has stripped our emotional reserves even further, laying bare our unique physical, social, and emotional vulnerabilities.