Caregiver Burnout: You're Not the Only One

This feeling of being stuck. …

My sleep tracker, a meticulously calibrated device I bought after reading that article in *The Lancet* about sleep hygiene and cognitive function, showed a perfect graph: deep sleep, REM cycles, no… …

I’m staring at this plate. …

You know that feeling when you're just *swimming* in to-do lists? …

Like, the inertial force is gone, the drive just… dissipates. …

well, since the divorce, you know how it is. …

i hate myself so much right now like the actual worst human on the planet and i cant even tell anyone this stuff cause theyd all be like what is WRONG with you and its so embarrassing to even type it… …

I'm looking at this stack of dishes, like a MOUNTAIN, and my brain just… stops. …

And yet, I woke up with this pervasive, almost somatic fatigue, like every cell in my body is resisting the simple act of existing. …

I’m sitting here in the dark garage unable to move and it occurs to me that for all our talk of human connection what we really mean is we just want SOMEONE to carry the load of our existence for a… …

I completely blanked on my grandma’s doctor’s appointment yesterday and honestly, it’s just so fucking typical of me, like, I write EVERYTHING down but apparently, some part of my brain just decided… …

I just slept like, eight hours. …

i just— i just snapped at work today and it was so stupid and i feel like such a monster and it wasn't even about anything important just someone asked me for a file i'd already sent and i just… …

sitting on the floor in the pantry at 2am after everyone else is asleep, maybe just crying silently into a bag of chips, feeling kinda invisible but also REALLY SEEN by that overhead light? …

You ever just like, stare at your food? …

i just watch her sleep you know her chest going up and down and i know shes exhausted shes been up too but this feeling of being so tired you cant even close your eyes that kind of tired where you… …

And I felt it immediately, the guilt, it just washed over me. …

I had to cancel on Liam again. …

I just… I don’t even know what I’m doing here. …

You know, sometimes you just… reach a kind of saturation point, I guess. …