Exhaustion as a caregiver might have some small differences from one person to another, but there are some common factors you need to be on the lookout for in your daily life.
You’re More Emotional in General
Exhaustion takes a lot out of you in so many ways. In terms of your emotional health, you don’t have the same checks and balances in place as you normally might. You can be far more emotional than usual, which might mean tears when you don’t normally cry or even just mood swings that take you and others by surprise.
You’re Beyond Tired
When you’re exhausted, you’re definitely tired. But it’s more than that, too. When you’re that tired, even a good night’s sleep doesn’t seem to make a dent in how you’re feeling. You might feel as if you never got any sleep at all, much less enough to help you feel rested.
You Might Be Arguing with Others
You might consider angry reactions a part of being more emotional, but it’s a little more than that. You might not be angry at your aging adult, but you might find yourself reacting angrily to strangers, for instance. Road rage might be more common for you. Or you might find yourself picking fights with people that you love.
Your Eating Habits Suffer
Exhaustion is not the best frame of mind in which to make decisions about your own health, of course. You might find that you’re hardly eating at all or that you’re eating foods that are terrible for you. There’s so much other stuff going on that food might be literally the last thing that you’re thinking about. This makes exhaustion worse because now your body is run down and it has no fuel.
You Can’t Remember as Well
Being exhausted can also mean that you’re having a tough time remembering even regular details that usually are right there on the tip of your brain. You might find that you need reminders about reminders and that’s a dangerous spot in which to be. So much can fall through the cracks and you’re constantly forgetting things.
When you’re a caregiver, exhaustion may be a common occurrence. The sooner you can recognize what is going on the sooner you can put some solutions in place. It’s not your lot as a caregiver to live in constant exhaustion. You have to spot it, deal with it, and move on from it.
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