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Caregiver Burnout: Steps for Coping wth Stress

By AARP staff — 2019

Recognize the signs and get the help you need to reduce the toll on your body and mind

Read on www.aarp.org

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Already Toast: Caregiving and Burnout in America

Already Toast shows how all-consuming caregiving can be, how difficult it is to find support, and how the social and literary narratives that have long locked women into providing emotional labor also keep them in unpaid caregiving roles.

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Kate Washington
2022
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Tips for Managing Caregiver Stress

Stress from being a caregiver can affect your physical and mental health. Learn the signs and symptoms of caregiver burnout.

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2020
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The Toll that Caring for Elderly Parents Can Take

As part of our “You’re Not Alone” series, we looked at the toll that caring for elderly parents can take. Syndicated columnist Ellen Goodman has written about caring for her elderly parents, and Dr. Eric Weil helps oversee primary care at Mass General and encounters these situations everyday.

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2013
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Prevent Caregiver Burnout

For those taking care of a loved one with a mental illness, it can be hard to look out for one’s own well-being. Practicing good self-care may be one of the most important things you do to prevent caregiver burnout.

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2020
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How Modern Work Pressure Distorts Our Identity | Burnout

In the first part of The National’s series Battling Burnout, Canadian author and workplace expert Rahaf Harfoush tells Andrew Chang that pressures in the modern workplace are distorting our identities by often placing success at work at the expense of mental and physical well-being.

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2019
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How Stress Is Killing Us (And How You Can Stop It). | Thijs Launspach | TEDxuniversiteitvanamsterdam

What cause us to have so much stress these days? And why are especially young people vulnerable to this? What is stress? What happens in the brain and in the body during stress? What are the consequences of stress, if you’re not careful? What is burn-out? Which 5 steps can you take to reduce...

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2018
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Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

Burnout. Many women in America have experienced it. What’s expected of women and what it’s really like to be a woman in today’s world are two very different things—and women exhaust themselves trying to close the gap between them.

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Emily Nagoski, Amelia Nagoski
2020
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Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder

As more and more people are coming to realize, there is far more to living a truly successful life than just earning a bigger salary and capturing a corner office.

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Arianna Huffington
2015
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How to Survive Burnout - College Advice

It's burnout season for college students everywhere so I decided to give some college advice on the topic. Stay strong.

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2019
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Academic Burnout and the Feeling of Inadequacy [College Student]

Many of my peers and I have been experiencing some more-intense-than-usual academic burnout—here to put my thoughts out there and hopefully help people feel less alone.

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2021
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