In the US, we are taught from a really young age that our value as humans is tied directly to our production as well, and often caregivers really struggle with feeling like failures because they did not achieve production and perfection. The failure is that you set yourself up that way. The success is when you don’t.
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The Long Goodbye is Bullshit
Here’s why: It focuses on a perceived death (and the very real experience of ambiguous loss) and displacement of a person while they’re still very much alive. It completely skips the living time between diagnosis and death- arguably the most precious time a person has on this Earth.
The Dementia Diva 