Regarding Caregivers

The term "burnout" is personally annoying.  It indicates, to me, a surrender or a '"giving up".  I find it distasteful, and find it often used as an accusation, or a reflection of one's character, or a lack of character.

Perhaps, instead of burnout, the caregiver is angry, confused, frustrated, and disappointed - not in the patient, but in the horrific crash that caused such chaos.  An earthquake would pale compared to the magnitude of suffering endured by the patient and family in the aftermath of the accident.  The patient has come to inhabit a body that looks like someone we once knew.  For me, this stranger looks like my daughter.  Every once in a while, she sounds like my daughter, but my daughter would not be so cruel with her words, or verbose and repetitive in her conversations.  If it is difficult for me, how is it for her?

Perhaps, just perhaps, it is time for my to change my perspective - again.

from a Caregiver