By Karen Bruno — 2012
Don’t let chronic illness weaken the bond between you and your partner.
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Here are 10 ways to offer healthy support without draining yourself or neglecting your own needs, whether you’re in a long-term relationship or just stared dating someone with ADHD.
Here are a few tips to help guide you in supporting a loved one with a lifelong, debilitating illness.
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Learn how to give patients and their families the support they need.
Both working and non-working caregivers are likely to experience stress associated with “sandwich” caregiving.
So what does help when a friend or family member is in the thick of caregiving, or any crisis?
More adults these days find themselves becoming a caregiver for a family member, especially as the older demographic continues to grow. According to the Family Caregiver Alliance, 85% of caregivers look after a relative or other loved one, and 42% of them care for a parent.
“For your husband, your illness may have made him acutely aware of not just your mortality, but also his own.”
You not calling, as a friend, can actually compound the grief and loss they are feeling. Just pick up the phone, even if you get it wrong, just have a conversation and do your best. Your friend with cancer is still the same person they were before.
Some tips to help you nourish each other's hearts.
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As caregivers, we need to be more than problem solvers. We need to be portals to a larger possibility.