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What happens when caregiving becomes your entire identity

I have been my brother's caregiver since our parents died and I realize I do not know who I am outside of taking care of other people.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Long-term caregiving can subsume personal identity so completely that the self becomes indistinguishable from the role.

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“Where Are You with Caregiving?”

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