It's okay to feel exhausted as a mental health caregiver. Don't question yourself
While it’s important to know how to care for a person battling a mental health issue, it’s also okay to accept that it won’t always be simple. Especially when you are at the receiving end of their sometimes cruel, toxic behaviour.
Synopsis
Caregiver stress, physical and emotional, is, both, normal and expected.
If the person you love or live with wakes up with a fever for a few days, you’ll know what to do. If they cut themselves, you’ll again know how to administer first aid. But what happens when the problem a person is battling isn’t as tangible. What do you do when a person starts showing signs of anxiety or depression, where’s the knowledge to deal with that? And why weren’t we ever taught it?
As the pandemic forced us indoors, we spent more
