{"id":565,"date":"1999-12-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-12-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/coping-with-difficult-parents\/"},"modified":"2021-06-29T20:26:42","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T20:26:42","slug":"coping-with-difficult-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/coping-with-difficult-parents\/","title":{"rendered":"Coping With Difficult Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Caregiving often disrupts the harmony of a family, especially when the “patient” could be considered an emotionally “toxic” elder. This means that they can be verbally abusive to you, demanding and perhaps even needy. If they have always been this way for as long as you can remember, it is time you learn to deal with it better. If it is something more recent, make sure there isn’t a medical or emotional issue attached to it.<\/p>\n

Caregivers who feel drained and\/or angry while dealing with complaints, demands and accusations need to realize there is actually such a thing as a difficult parent. Learning to set boundaries is an important step for the caregiver. Most of us as caregivers are so loving and giving that we just do not know how to say point blank, “NO”. However, if you don’t learn how to take responsibility in this manner, you might want to seek professional help all you will lose it.<\/p>\n

Establish rules and let your parent know you are not available 100% of the time.<\/p>\n

Make sure you don’t isolate yourself while devoted to the caregiving process.<\/p>\n

While your parent may become confused, depressed, extremely ill and\/or in pain the caregiver may also experience a personality change which needs to be dealt with upon the inception.<\/p>\n

Copyrighted Gail R. Mitchell 12\/99<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Caregiving often disrupts the harmony of a family, especially when the “patient” could be considered an emotionally “toxic” elder. Here are some suggestions on how to cope with a difficult loved one you are caring for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[38],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caregiver-issues","category-mental-health-emotional-issues"],"authors":[{"term_id":38,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"gail-mitchell","display_name":"Gail Mitchell","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5192,"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions\/5192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}