I'd like to welcome everybody to today's presentation on caregiver burnout prevention, the emotional aspects.

I'm your host, Dr. Donnelly Snipez.

In this presentation, we'll identify the emotional signs of burnout, explore emotional issues leading to burnout in caregivers,

and identify strategies to maintain emotional health.

I think it's important to recognize when we talk about emotions, what we're talking about,

essentially, are neurochemical processes that occur as a result of either prior learning

and expectations.

So if I've encountered a situation similar to this before in some way,

my brain is going to say, okay, I remember this and this is what you can expect.

Or this was a dangerous sort of situation before.

You weren't in control.

This is what you should expect.

So my anxiety is going to go up.

So prior learning triggers memories, triggers schema that helps us anticipate and expect

what may be coming up.

It doesn't mean it's a fact.

It means, based on the knowledge I have, this is what might happen.

So we need to check those feelings against facts.

We need to recognize that feelings are not facts.

And they can be neurochemical reactions that occur as a result of the current experience.

You're going through something and all your

senses are saying, danger, Will Robinson. Of course, you're going to feel angry. You're going to feel

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