India, Nov. 18 -- Most of my clients in therapy are largely between the ages of thirty-five and eighty years and many of them are caregivers to either a parent, their in-laws or their partner. I too have been a caregiver to my in-laws who struggled with health issues, mobility and before they passed away some time back. As a child, I watched my mother take care of my grandparents and later my dad for about twenty years as he struggled with debilitating health conditions. In retrospect, it's striking that caregiving, despite being socially expected, remains largely unacknowledged and invisible.

Whether we choose it willingly or unwillingly, caregiving reshapes us in many ways-our attentiveness and hypervigilance quietly reshapes who we be...