Compassion Fatigue: A Short Story

The songs Three weeks by Marco Antonio Solis and I talk to her everyday by Los Tigres del Norte are both songs that try to give out the message about how their moms suffer when their sons grow up and forget about them for many different factors. For example: college, getting married, work, taking friends in priority, get addicted to drugs, etc; and when we finally start to worry, change, and try to talk to their mothers again it is too late because their mothers die of loneliness and absence of them their children. The song Three weeks is about a mother who raises her son to be a very strong independent man and when he grows up to leave to college he forgets about how much his mother had done for him. He would never call or visit his mom. His mom would alway go to church and pray for him

However, many of them were fearful of their abuser which caused them distress such as in the case with Lucille. Lucille experience long-term psychological effects from her ex-husband whom she was married to for 16 years. Although Lucille and her husband divorce, she was never free from his abuse. After moving in with her daughter due to health concerns, her husband was her caregiver while her daughter was away. After complaining of the treatment she received from her ex-husband her daughter felt that she needed to “deal with it”.

Many authors write poems to express different types of feeling such as happiness, sadness, or judgment. In these poems the authors talk about being judge, and criticize and how they dealt with their struggles. Many people cope differently as we will see in, “Barbie Doll”, “David Talamantez on the Las Day of Second Grade” and the “Suicide Note”. In the poem “Suicide Note” by Janice Mirikitani, reveals her disappointment of her inability to rise to her parents standards, which becomes too much for her and she takes away her life. You see the speakers disappoint when she states, “dear mother and father/ I apologize/ I’ve worked very hard, /not good enough/ harder, perhaps to please you/ if only I were a son,” (4-10).

Danielle Ofri Ambivalent An article written by Danielle Ofri in 2005 titled “Living Will when she narrates us a story about one of her patient who had health problem and a lot of family issues. This patient was hateful to life, suicidal, and he had no reason to live because he have no one from his family to take care of him or ask about him. He tried to kill himself few times, also he asked his doctor to let him die. Suddenly, all of that have changed and the patient wanted to live. So, Ofri was ambivalent because she did not knew what to do help him to stay alive or let him die.

medication, alcohol) or another medical condition A: As evidenced by: Client decided to seek treatment at the VA hospital. Client’s mother noted that he began to experience depression, insomnia, and flashbacks of his wartime experience 1: Supported by: “he has been very depressed ever since he returned from the war. The client reported that during his tour he killed a civilian, “for the fun of it.” 4: Supported by: “He became preoccupied with watching TV news stories about this event.” B: Supported by:” Client’s mother noted that he been very depressed ever since he returned from the war 1: Supported by: “The memory of the incident continues to haunt him, and he is racked with guilt.” 3: Supported by: “when he had flashbacks while out in the backyard: as a plan flew overhead, flying somewhat lower than usual, the client threw himself to the ground seeking covers, thinking it was an attacking

She watched her mother die slowly and she watched her dad struggle to take care of her. As a young kid or even as an adult watching the person who is supposed to raise you and teach about love, and everything you need to know in life will greatly affect what type of person you turn into. One of the most heartbreaking things you can go through as a child is watching your mother slowly die and then watching your father struggle to take care of her and provide for the family. Ida went through a lot, her mom was sick and then her mom’s sister Clara came to help out and caused a lot of drama in the family. All the fighting put a lot of stress on young Ida, “Mama charged Clara with sneaking into the house like an enemy, charger that she had always covered papa, berated her for taking advantage of illness to have her way” (283).

She is constantly embarrassed to even be seen with her grandmother.One piece of evidence that points to this is,”Right up to the time when we’re supposed to pick up the old lady at the airport, my mother is telling me stories about how hard times were for la familia on la isla, and how la abuela worked night and day to support them after their father died of a heart attack” (Cofer 2). This shows that from the very beginning constancia has no respect for her grandmother and is ashamed of her. She calls her “the old lady” instead of her grandmother. She also does not have much sympathy for her grandmother considering her difficulty at home. Likewise, she continues to treat her grandmother with disrespect.

In a way, this alludes to Sondheim’s relationship with his mother. After the divorce, his mother goes way off the deep end. She tries to turn Sondheim against his father, begins to emotionally and sexually abuse him, and quite figuratively suffers the same demise as the Baker’s Wife (Secrest 30). “My mother was a difficult lady and I had a difficult time with her,” says Sondheim (Gottfried 13). The once somewhat-stable Foxy Sondheim dies and becomes an entirely different Foxy, one that is broken, hurt, and

The Liars’ Club: A Memoir by Mary is a disturbing yet heart-wrenching book about the rough childhood of young Mary whom has grown up in an extremely depressing family situation. Throughout her early ages, Mary and her sister, Lecia have witness their parents fighting on a daily occasion. Most of the time, her mom was the sources of all the arguments. As a consequences, watching her mom getting drunk on bed and the instability in her behaviors was the main cause of the deterioration of young Mary Karr’s manners. The father seemed to be the only source of positive emotions.

We all felt the loss of her warmth and presence keenly, but none more than my mother, who suffered through an intense period of depression in the months following. This was my first experience with death, and I can clearly remember the sadness and confusion I felt during and after my grandmother’s funeral. Trying to come to grips with losing my grandmother was difficult enough, but I found myself having to take on the responsibilities my mother’s depression had rendered her unable to do. Though my mother eventually recovered, I had no idea at the time that watching her struggling with depression would be an augury for my own personal battles with