How many times have we witnessed grandmothers overloaded with obligations? Overwhelmed and pressured to the extreme, they carry the duty of simultaneously carrying out several tasks with efficiency, success and punctuality, being also directly responsible for their grandchildren or adult children not emancipated.
In some extreme cases the slave grandmother's syndrome, a clinical picture that is difficult to diagnose, since the sufferer has symptoms of common diseases, although they do not respond to conventional treatments. All this causes in the grandmother a chronic suffering and a remarkable deterioration of their quality of life.
The syndrome of the slave grandmother is caused by consecutive exhaustion of chronic physical and emotional stress or overexertion, especially in relation to the responsibilities of a housewife in active exercise. The coexistence of other diseases advances the onset of clinical manifestations and aggravates them. The slave grandmother's syndrome was described and studied by Dr. Antonio Guijarro Morales, cardiologist, professor at the University of Granada, in the book of the same name. In his work, the author reviews and illustrates with several real examples this form of "frequent and serious, life-threatening" disease.
Unfortunately, this syndrome is common in our society, constituting one of the most widespread pandemics suffered by women in the 21st century. It is a fact that in each family there is, there was or will be a slave grandmother, at least.
