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When caregiving brings out your worst self

My mom has dementia and keeps asking me the same questions and I snapped at her yesterday and the look of confusion in her eyes is haunting me.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Exhaustion can temporarily override love, creating shame that compounds the original burden.

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