At some point during the long-term care journey, nearly every family caregiver will feel overwhelmed by the amount of care their aging, sick, or disabled loved one requires. But how much stress is too much? There’s a fine line between “normal” stress and the stress described by Dr. Timothy Brigham, a well-known medical educator. Dr. Brigham describes stress as “the basic confusion created when one’s mind overrides the body’s desire to choke the living daylights out of someone who desperately deserves it.”
