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Caregiving’s Unexpected Toll on the Health

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Daphne Wiswell knew something was off when minor inconveniences in life—such as a flat tire—were giving her physical symptoms such as shakiness and the sense that a panic attack could happen at any moment. Ms. Wiswell’s intuition was right that her body was out of balance. Most of her experience in understanding the human body, however, came from two decades of caring for various family members, including a daughter with multiple autoimmune forms of arthritis and her mother-in-law and mother on a short-term basis before each one passed away. It also included her son who was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at age 2, a disease that leaves many parents in a constant state of hypervigilance. Ms. Wisell is also healing from her own autoimmune diseases....

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