Caring For Dementia

I can see why you ask. I care about someone who has "sundowners syndrome" (google) and it makes me a little crazy.

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I help take care of my mother who has Alzheimer's disease. After a long day with her (she does not engage in stimulating conversation) I feel completely exhausted. I often thought I was going down with him too.

It is possible that if someone is wrapped in the care of a patient with dementia, a patient with a disease, and if they do not get enough rest and time away .... then they can begin to experience some symptoms identical or similar to the patient in their care. It is logical that when someone is so wrapped up in a disease and the effects of the disease they begin to be effected by this.

No, it can cause exhaustion and fatigue that makes it hard thinking and memory. Some people begin to feel a sort of identification with the patient - is a form of empathy.
Make sure you have enough rest, and go out and relate to people who are alert and interesting - which should "you wake up and feel normal again.

I think the overwhelming personality of a person with dementia is very stressful to manage.
It takes a lot of patients and give of ourselves both physically and mentally, so naturally it would make you feel overwhelmed at the end of your workday ...

Being in the presence of such a dysfunctional personality throughout the day would be in the act of taking its toll on you.
Like any job .... cope with stress can have strange effects on us ...
Good luck and things will get better I'm sure ...