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Why Caregiving Brings Out the Worst in Good People

I keep snapping at my elderly mother when she repeats herself and then I feel terrible but I cannot seem to stop.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The sustained stress of caregiving can trigger our most primitive responses, creating guilt that compounds the original burden.

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