EILEEN ADLER

Caregivers for dependent people can also experience compassion fatigue, which “develops over time – taking weeks, sometimes years to surface. Basically, it’s a low level, chronic clouding of caring and concern for others in your life – whether you work in or outside the home. Over time, your ability to feel and care for others becomes eroded through overuse of your skills of compassion. You also might experience an emotional blunting – whereby you react to situations differently than one would normally expect.” When Helping Hurts by F. Oshberg, MD

Life Lesson: create a crisis plan BEFORE there is a crisis.