Mayo Clinic's current Alzheimer's newsletter is so good that I have decided to copy/paste it to my blog today. Yes, I think there is truth in this idea that we can love better by caring less. For whole article:
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/medical/MY01832/?utm_source=Alzheimers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TargetedNewsletter
"In my experience, Alzheimer's caregivers are often invested physically and emotionally in the caring around day to day tasks and the challenging behaviors their loved ones with the disease can exhibit. Common behaviors in a person with Alzheimer's can include agitation, apathy, delusions, paranoia, and sleep problems to name some. And caregivers care that their loved one is confused, agitated or unable to sleep.
For many Alzheimer's caregivers, when they care, emotions such as worry, frustration, guilt and agitation are often an unwelcome outcome of caring — and that, I believe, is when unconditional love can get buried. Beck writes, "Unlike 'caring', the word love has no such range of meaning: Love is pure acceptance." So, to love, maybe we do need to care less." Angela Lunde, Mayo Clinic.
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