If you look back in the posts, you will see my suggestion for a dysfunctional caregiver stress reduction technique – chocolate. Not Recommended. I don’t recommend alcohol, drugs, running off to Patagonia, an affair, compulsive shopping, or hiding under the covers. There are others and they all serve as escape but do nothing to relieve the stress. (Not to say I haven’t tried some of them. But not Patagonia.)
Caregivers of aging parents are not going to be able to avoid or eliminate stress. What we are doing is stressful. Life is stressful enough without adding memory loss, increasing physical debility, financial strain, a difficult medical system, uncooperative relatives, and our own increasing sense of mortality to the mix. Stress is not going to go away. Carol’s Caregiver Desperation Scale may help you evaluate …
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