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Helen is a fifty-year-old woman who came to me for counseling a week ago because of the conflicts she was experiencing with her adult daughter Susan and her granddaughter Madeline. Susan recently lost her job and had to move back in with Helen. Helen is a widow and although she did have enough additional room in her house for her daughter, she says often finds it difficult to cope with having Susan and a small child around all of the time. Susan does not make a contribution to the housekeeping and often keeps odd hours because she is not currently working. Susan gets up and goes to bed late (Madeline is not yet of school age). Helen still works as a librarian and says that she finds it tiring to come home and have to entertain and cook for others. "I was hoping that at this point in my life, I would have time to do things just for me." Helen feels she cannot spend time...

At present, Susan is not financially capable of paying Helen rent, and Helen feels as if she is being taken advantage of but cannot put her foot down and make demands upon Susan because of Susan's precarious position as an unemployed woman with a small child.
Helen is experiencing many symptoms of 'burnout' or compassion fatigue. She finds herself being hypercritical of Susan about small things, without addressing the big issues she is worried about, namely Susan's future and her own ability to live her life. She feels torn between her role as mother and grandmother and her desire for a more independent existence. She says she frequently feels tired from 'running after' Madeline all of the time.

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