Try: Family caregivers often feel similar emotions being aware of these feelings can help caregivers get the support they need information anger being angry at the illness destroying your loved one or being angry at other family members who are not helping with the caregiving anxiety being anxious about relationships that are struggling while you are caregiving or being anxious because you know the caregiving is hard on your family fatigue feeling tired of working at a job and caring for your own needs those of your nuclear family and then the Care recipient (cr) too fear fear of the unknown frustration being frustrated that things aren’t working as you had hoped or being frustrated at the people in your life who aren’t understanding to your situation grief grief at losing a loved-one guilt guilt that you aren’t able to care for everyone like you used to or guilt that you know your loved-one isn’t sick on purpose resentment resenting that you are always taking care of someone else while your own needs aren’t being met sadness feeling sad that your loved-one has become someone you don’t know anymore references taken from information found in the book caring for your aging parents by kerris s smith

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Categories: Caregiver Needs&Support, Cognitive Intellectual, Communication, Emotional Psychological, Medical Physical, Social

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Keywords: Emotions anger guilt grief feelings

*This information is listed as a Fact Sheet and is not explicitly medically licensed