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Awareness about mental illness is spreading everyday. Around the world,concepts like Depression or Anxiety were taboo;the subject of relentless stigma. Never to be taken seriously,mental health has spent years being brushed aside. Thanks to an increasing number of Media portrayals, books, studies,conferences and so on, the world now is more accepting of the mental health community. But with such insights, newer considerations have also been brought to light. If a person faces a mental illness, are they the only ones affected by it? If not, then how far reaching are these effects,and what can be done to intervene and make the journey easier on everyone involved? This article explores exactly these questions.

Caregiver burden refers to the effects of fatigue,stress and other distressing psychological symptoms that parents, siblings,other family members,or even friends of an individual in need of care face as non-professional caregivers. The burden experienced is subjective in nature and can often signal negative outcomes in a caregiving situation, for both the caregiver and the person being cared for.
One is said to cope with stressful situations using such appraisals. The primary appraisal here refers to the specific stressor and the secondary appraisal refers to how we think we can cope with it using the abilities and resources at our disposal. Caregiver burden often takes place when the strategies used are dysfunctional such as self-criticism rather than emotional regulation, or substance abuse rather than a healthy problem