Patient is providing emotional, logistical, and financial care to someone who has not reciprocated in any measurable way since the first six weeks. Patient is tired in a way that has a name.
Burnout is arriving on schedule.
None. Receiving has been attempted and found impossible.
Patients with Severe Caretaker-Burnout Condition typically present with some or all of the following:
Patients diagnosed with Severe Caretaker-Burnout Condition present with a cluster of recognizable behaviors we have, on reflection, decided to name. The condition is fictional. The behaviors, unfortunately, are not. Someone in your life is showing at least two of them right now.
The Institute's taxonomic entry lists it as Giving excedentus recipiens zerus, a binomial coined in-house and used nowhere in the peer-reviewed literature.
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