12 Signs You Are Experiencing Caregiver Compassion Fatigue
Edmonton Respite Care | November 18, 2024
Everything Caregivers Need to Know About Experiencing Compassion Fatigue in Edmonton, AB
Are You Experiencing Caregiver Compassion Fatigue? When family or friends must care for a loved one, symptoms of chronic stress are likely to appear. The caregiver can suffer emotionally and physically from the loving care they’re providing to someone else.
This common problem called compassion fatigue is a term given to caregivers who might be helping someone injured, ill, or traumatized.
Caregivers usually have the best intentions as they help, but someone who is elderly, ill, or incapacitated can be an overwhelming burden on one’s mental, physical, and emotional abilities.
Compassion Fatigue VS Burnout
Compassion fatigue is similar to burnout but is more unpredictable in its onset. Burnout usually takes longer to emerge whereas symptoms of compassion fatigue can arrive suddenly. Burnout can be so severe that someone experiencing it will even find it necessary to leave a job, or even an occupation entirely.
With compassion fatigue, someone can typically be treated much more easily, but there are specific things one must do for self-care while providing care for a loved one.
Is Respite Care the Answer?
It’s mandatory to rejuvenate between caregiving shifts. Compassion fatigue may create intense emotional pain and physical fatigue. Caregivers must watch for symptoms and then learn the tools to manage the stress healthily. If providing care for a senior parent, friend, or loved one, ask for assistance before things get too hard on you.
12 Common Symptoms of Caregiver Compassion Fatigue:
- Feelings of inequity toward the caregiver relationship
- Loss of meaning in caregiving
- Withdrawal, isolation, or feelings of being disconnected
- Apathy or a lower threshold for compassion or empathy
- Problems arising in other relationships
- Difficulty sleeping
- Weight loss
- Destructive behaviours or substance abuse
- Unexplained headaches
- Anger, irritability, anxiety
- Chronic exhaustion (emotional or physical)
- Feelings of dread, impending disaster, or guilt
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