Caregiver Letter-Insights into My Chronic Illness (V5

I am not sure what to do and my brain fog and fatigue are making it difficult to advocate for myself in my journey to find help and answers. [...] Please Don’t Blame Me It is tempting to assign blame to someone or something when we don’t have a definitive cause to what is happening to my body. [...] I Am Not Lazy I want to be able to do all the things I once did. [...] Have Grace/Withhold Judgment Please know that when you come to my space and it is not as clean as I would like to be, or I have not paid my bills on time, or I am wearing sweats because I can’t tolerate any other material against my skin…I am doing my best. [...] Use Others to Support You as a Caregiver There is a “rings of trauma theory” and it says that you draw a circle with whoever has the trauma in the center, and you make degrees (or people) connected to the trauma going outward.