Lessons in Avoiding Compassion Fatigue
A recent KevinMD piece highlights caregiver burnout by including an excerpt from the book, A Caregiver's Love Story. The author, Nancie Wiseman Attwater, writes of this condition as a "real and serious problem for those caregivers in for the long haul. It is a serious issue if you go to bed each night in anguish over the next day's chores and wake up each morning with a feeling of heaviness and a reluctance to get going."
Nancie writes of ways in which caregivers can get support, such as counseling, support groups, respite, and more—if these options are available.