{"id":626926,"date":"2026-09-16T23:36:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T23:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/626926\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T23:36:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T23:36:19","slug":"the-signs-caregiving-is-harming-your-health-and-how-to-protect-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/626926\/","title":{"rendered":"The Signs Caregiving Is Harming Your Health\u2014and How To Protect Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Ask the health system treating your loved one whether it offers caregiver specialists, social workers, counseling, or support groups. Local and condition-specific organizations may also provide respite care, meal delivery, transportation, or in-home assistance.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Support groups can be particularly useful because \u201ceverybody gets it,\u201d Mariani says. Caregivers can trade practical advice without having to explain why an outsider-supplied solution won\u2019t work.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">If researching resources feels like one responsibility too many, hand that job to someone who keeps asking how they can help: \u201cFind out what caregiver support is available through Mom\u2019s hospital, and send me the three best options.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Accepting help ultimately benefited both Ryan and her husband. He was highly social, and when friends stopped by, he got more company and stimulation. Ryan, meanwhile, stopped reflexively turning everyone away.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">\u201cI went from, No, I got this, to yes,\u201d she says. \u201cPeople wanted to lean in. They wanted to help. I got out of my own way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ask the health system treating your loved one whether it offers caregiver specialists, social workers, counseling, or support&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[777,103,397,396,61,60,410],"class_list":["post-626926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-evergreen","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mental-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}