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Caregiver frustration. Yes, this is a thing – and a grave matter at that. When you are a caregiver, you find yourself in many complicated and overwhelming situations. Since tending to someone’s needs can be fulfilling, but can also create a lot of negative energy, the experience leaves you feeling drained and lost.

Encountering severe frustration as a caregiver is one of those issues that needs to be dealt with immediately. It can affect both personal and professional relationships. You should avoid it at all cost, and here’s how.

Avoid Caregiver Frustration By Keeping Emotions In Line

The easiest way to break apart and exit your caregiver role is to let your emotions get the better of you. In these situations, our persona changes. This can affect you in the long term, but the person you care for is affected immediately. With a lot of stress and frustration, we develop a feeling that the world is rejecting us, and that’s just not realistic. It is imperative to ignore these false feelings and to realize these emotions will pass.

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STOP

When we say stop, we do not mean to stop everything you are doing and freeze. In moments of caregiver frustration, it is essential to take a pause. If you are feeling especially bad, then HALT. Drink a glass of water, eat something – healthy if possible. Caring for another person, out of love or professionalism, is nice, but care about yourself too. In the end, the most important thing is rest. Take a break, a longer one if needed, or take a day off; a calm mind is a productive mind.

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Avoid Guilt

Yes, caregiver frustration will bring the worst out in you. In these cases, stop and deal with it – but it’s the matter of spilled milk. There is no use or need to cry over it. To be frustrated while caring for someone is normal, and it comes with the job. You need to approach it as a learning process, and with time, you will learn how to both deal with it and avoid it altogether.

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