Apr 27: Responding to gena D...
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> iam so tired, anybody else feel like i do?
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Probably every full time carer on the planet. :(
The problem with full time caring is that the caring
typically only goes one way. I don't mean that in a bad way,
just that those who need the care often get so involved in
their own problems they fail to see the load on their
carers.
If there is not an effective mechanism to ragulate the cost
to the carer, then one just keeps on keeping on, never
seeing signposts that indicate we should have taken a break
here or there.
We don't take breaks of course, because we are always
chasing the "perfect game" where we finally achive some
goal, some ideal situation where we CAN take a break and
feel as if we've achived what we set out to. This never
happens because it can't, and we never take that break.
We need to learn how to take "half-way" breaks.
Either that or we end up falling over and then there are two
care-needers.
I was once asked what the most im****tant times in my day
were. I figured they would be my most productive. I got the
quiz wrong. It seems that leasure time is the time that
should be protected. If you are on a break, you should be
unavailable. Totally offline. Not there to be scooped back
into things before you have rested.
Work out what YOU need.
Plan it, arrange it (lie if you need to).
TAKE THE BREAK!
And start this today. Ok?
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