Caring for someone who is unwell
Caregiving is often described as a duty and rarely as an experience, which leaves the person doing it with nowhere to put what it is actually like.
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What this is about
There is the logistics, and then there is everything underneath: the grief that starts long before a loss, the resentment that arrives and gets immediately buried, the guilt about the resentment, and the slow disappearance of your own life into the schedule of somebody else's. In joint families the load is often assumed rather than agreed, and it usually lands on the same person.
What work here looks like
Therapy here is not about making you better at caregiving. It is about having one hour where you are the person being asked about.
Nothing on this page is a diagnosis. If you are in immediate danger or worried you might act on thoughts of harming yourself, please contact Tele-MANAS (14416 or 1-800-89-14416, available 24×7 across India) or your local emergency services.
Where this often overlaps.
