Jeff Dye
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
When you're an old person, you feel a little guilt that like, ah, my kids.
They've been with this person for 45 years.
My dad just died and my mom is not doing great with the, I mean, she's been with him since she was 17.
Yeah, and she's feeling a lot of guilt because he was kind of cognitively...
I don't know how to say it politely.
He was just kind of not himself for the last year.
And so when he passed, my mom did feel a little relief.
Like, you know, I'm kind of his caretaker.
And so then feel guilt about the relief.
You know, I don't want to feel relieved that someone that I'm...
that I've known my whole life is gone.
And then now trying to mourn that, you know, it's, it's very, very complicated.
And it's real hard when someone has dementia or Alzheimer's or anything along those lines, the patients that these people have to work with dementia and those kinds of, even an eating disorder is, is,
You can't really communicate it to the person when they have this body dysmorphia or something as simple as that.
Those people are saints that can work with anybody cognitively or any kind of dysphoria.
Those are heroes to me because I don't have the patience for it.