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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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

A lot of the events she had gone through made way for “something deep and bitter” to settle in her heart (77), as well as the need to make everyone “cower at [her] feet and...make them bleed,” (76) are used as her own personal momentum towards her search for justice and gratification. Additionally, Adelina’s unusually high dependence on others had herself hit her ultimate low, causing her to internally “[spiral] downward, falling to a place where [she] can no longer pull [herself ]back up,” when discovering that the ones she loved didn’t reciprocate the same feelings. With that being said, Adelina’s search for justice could be represented as a search of finding oneself, albeit a long and dangerous

“Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death” (Chopin 516). While Louise become more and more ill, she tends to drift off more as the story progresses. With Louise being sick, she wants to be alone while she is slowly fading away. She is reminiscing on her childhood while facing reality. At one moment, she then knew her time was coming.

The memoir, “The Glass Castle”, written by Jeannette Walls, is a novel filled with hardships and obstacles faced by the author and her dysfunctional family. Living with her depressed mother who weeps and sobs about her struggles in her teaching job, her alcoholic gambling father who, on a daily basis, would not arrive home, and her two sisters, Lori and Maureen and brother, Brian. Though their constant moving and chasing from the debt collectors, one person who has affected Walls life would have to be her father, Rex Walls. Although his constant gambling and consistent job loss, he has become a significant figure in Walls life. He has shown her the problems of alcoholism, the struggles, and corruptions of the world, and especially allowed

The story of Henrietta Lacks life and legacy is one that I find heartbreaking but also bittersweet. Learning about her story over 60 years after her death makes me wonder if it were me, how I would feel about what happened. The way I perceive Henrietta was to be a good woman. She was a loyal wife to a man who she knew was unfaithful.

Introduction An opportunity to work at Regency Hospice in Murrells, SC, provided the chance to meet a patient by the name of Mr. Henry. He is a war veteran aged sixty-seven years old. In his old age he had been diagnosed with liver failure, which provided some challenges in life. Davis, 2011, recognizes that there are some challenges from liver failure such as psychological, mental and physical trauma that result in a reduction in the quality of life.