Try: Due to the stressful nature of caregiving many caregivers will become tired and worn down the demands of caregiving can be overwhelming especially if you feel you have little control over the situation or that you’re in over your head if you let the stress of caregiving progress to burnout it can damage both your physical and mental health it can also negatively impact the care recipient’s cr health as well as life expectancies increase and medical treatments advance more and more of us will participate in the caregiving process unfortunately caregiving can take a heavy toll if one doesn’t get adequate support caregiving involves many stressors changes in the family dynamic household disruption financial pressure and the large amount of work involved as the stress piles up frustration and despair take hold and burnout becomes a very real danger but a caregiver can prevent caregiver burnout by following a few essential guidelines learn as much as you can about your family member’s illness and about how to be a caregiver as you can the more you know the more effective caregiving can be and the better you’ll feel about your efforts know your limits as a caregiver be realistic about how much of your time and yourself you can give set clear limits and communicate those limits to doctors family members and other people involved accept your feelings caregiving can trigger a host of difficult emotions including anger fear resentment guilt helplessness and grief don’t let these emotions compromise the care for the cr confide in others talk to people about what you feel; don’t keep your emotions bottled up caregiver support groups are invaluable but trusted friends and family members can help too information references helpguide org
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*This information is listed as a Fact Sheet and is not explicitly medically licensed