Therapy for the Overwhelmed
More and more individuals are seeking individual therapy to help deal with the stress of taking care of aging loved ones, especially parents. In fact, it is increasingly common to see middle generation families taking care of themselves, their parents and their own children all at the same time while simultaneously working on their career. This is a large responsibility for anyone to shoulder, and quite often individual therapy helps people deal with the stress, guilt and fear involved.
Sarya had this to say:
I had three kids, ages 11, 9 and 3. I was working full time and taking care of my parents, too. Even though I had a flexible schedule at work, I was still maxed out on days because I was taking 5 different people to doctor appointments and grocery shopping, cooking for everyone, cleaning. When I got 4 hours of sleep at night, I felt lucky. I began to see a therapist to help me sort out the responsibilities and priorities in my life because I was just too overwhelmed. When my mother almost burnt down the kitchen making breakfast, I knew I needed even more help. My therapist suggested Senior Care for my parents, which was wonderful and really cut down on my workload.
Sarya’s therapist was seeing more and more patients dealing with this enormous amount of responsibility and had already recommended senior care for some other patients’ elderly relatives to lighten the burden a bit.
If you are overwhelmed by life and responsibilities, talk to an individual therapist to help understand how you can make the changes that you need.
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