Depression, Anxiety and Stress Management

Biography

Biography: NDJE NDJE Mireille

Abstract

Taking care of patients is the daily task of the caregiver who, to succeed needs the availability of the patient. The patient who is confronted with a serious illness is invaded by pain, and face a multitude of fears: the fear of suffering, of having physical pain, of leaving his family, of being abandoned or giving up, of being forgotten. Accompany the patient is to be with, not to be in front to see him facing the disease, or behind, to protect him and keep him away from the lived experience of the violence of the disease. It is about to meet each time with a kidness neutrality a human being in need, who put all his hope in the medicine, without being locked in an obligation of result. It is also a question of experiencing one's own psychological processes, of managing the pressures of the often very strong demand, the beliefs of the patient who generally attributes his illness to mystico-religious facts, the non tolerance of the failure by certain social conceptions. The caregiver must let himself be led where the patient wants to take him and not at all costs to achieve the predefined goals. It is not a question of trivializing, but rather of being sufficiently available to allow the patient to put down his anguish. But the caregiver is confronted not only with his own psychic processes, his relationship with the patient, but also with the team of caregivers and the entire society. In this triad carer-colleagues-society, the caregiver encounters misunderstandings in relation to his own anxiety, the emotional or technical points of view of his colleagues, the absolute search for positive results of society. Studying the day-to-day reality of the caregiver's work would contribute to a better understanding of the caregiver's behavior in this double bind dyad and triad to improve the quality of care delivery.