I Can't Handle My Dad's Dementia

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Dr. Laura gives Karen a new way to think about the care she has provided to her father over years of memory loss. Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11.
0:11.4	Karen, welcome to the program. Thank you, Dr. Laura. Thank you for taking my call.
0:17.3	You're very welcome. What's up? I'm calling you today because I feel like I need some mother Laura help and advice and words.
0:29.7	Okay.
0:31.0	Continue to tell myself when I'm not listening to you or just so you can help me through my dilemma.
0:42.1	I'll do my best.
0:43.6	What's up?
0:44.2	Okay.
0:46.9	Two years ago, two years, two months, I left my high school teaching job, which I loved.
0:53.9	I know that I changed life, but my dad's... I left my high school teaching job, which I loved.
0:56.2	I know that I changed life.
1:03.5	But my dad's health became quite clear that he had dementia.
1:08.3	Okay, I want to stop you here because I have a question to start out with.
1:10.2	Why the hell would you give up your career? Because your
1:11.6	dad had dementia. I don't understand why the two have to. I do not understand why you decided
1:19.8	the two were connected. The two were connected for me, no, semi-connected.
1:28.3	First of all, after the pandemic, the school that I was at without naming names,
1:34.3	and a lot of schools changed in the pandemic.
1:37.3	I was a high school teacher and we had to be really easy on the kids.
1:41.3	And I could no longer teach the way I wanted to so I was not being able I was not
1:49.1	able to do what I had always done and that was really hold kids accountable make them do their
1:54.4	work make them learn help them to do that stupid idea where did you come up with those ideas
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