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Depression

Caregiverland can make our eating habits run amok — and aggravate our caregiver depression. Do some of these Eating Habits Gone Amok sound familiar in your Caregiver experience? Eating over the sink and stove. Or the steering wheel. We’re so busy that we don’t have time to actually sit down at a real table (a [...]

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S ome gratitudes from this week: Tiny guava fruits on my Bangkok and White guava bushes; after seven years, these bushes are finally producing fruit. Puppy sitting a loveable German Shepherd puppy, who acts like he’s been taken to doggy summer camp — lots of romping time with our two big dogs. Going on a [...]

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Define Your Support Circle Carefully. These choices can either Drain or Replenish your Life Force on the Journey through Caregiverland. I was reading an insightful interview with a therapist who is writing a book about dealing with chronic illness. Elvira Aletta is a clinical psychologist, wife, mom to two teenagers and blogger, who is working [...]

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Finally… it looks like the medical establishment is grasping how caregiver depression can be treated. Researchers have created a scale to evaluate the risk of caregivers for a major depressive episode — a first step to evaluating how to treat the depression associated with caregiving. Researchers at Yale University have been evaluating a new survey [...]

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