Severe Medical Issues

Severe medical issues or injury of a family member can be devastating to a family. It can cause tremendous anxiety and stress. It can dominate family life and lead to significant financial hardship. When a family is struggling with this, its non afflicted members frequently don’t take enough care of themselves. Nor are they attended by others. It’s common for the healthy members to develop conflicted feelings about their constant role of care taker. Eventually the only topic of discussion may be the afflicted member’s current medical status. Family members are likely to feel guilty for thinking or talking about anything else. This type of process will drain the life out of the rest of the family and deplete it of the emotional resources it needs to sustain them as well as to offer support to the sick or injured family member. It is also tragically not unusual for a married couple to separate and divorce after the medical crisis has passed, especially if it involves the terminal illness of a child. Family counseling can be very useful to a family contending with the severe medical issue of a member. The counselor will assist the family to continue functioning as normally as possible while helping members to process their own issues along the way. For further information or to schedule an appointment please contact us.

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