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Burnout, Rage, Exhaustion, & Depression — Women’s Mental Health and Real Self Care (Dr. Pooja Lakshmin)

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The History of Self Care

The term originally came about in the 1950s or so on inpatient psychiatric units, when there were programs for helping patients exercise or make choices. After that, nursing field started to talk about self care in relation to compassion fatigue for health care workers. Somewhere along the way, things very much got hijacked though, and self care turned into the pretty pictures that you see on Instagram.

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