Can caring too much hurt your mental health? It's called compassion fatigue, and mental health experts say it's a phenomenon that occurs most commonly in people who work in professions like caretaking ...

Compassion fatigue in health care workers is work-related chronic stress from caring for others. It is secondary stress from exposure to suffering. Burnout is also associated with compassion fatigue.

The last 18 months have been incredibly taxing on the human psyche as we experience the COVID-19 virus, racial tensions, a challenging economy, the recent gas shortage, and isolation. On top of all of ...

Empathy is essential for leadership—but constant caregiving can extract a heavy toll on leaders. We even see such leaders within our own teams who struggle to watch them burn themselves out. So how ...

Nurse Jessica Mistic inside of Sanford Bemidji Medical Center on Sept. 17. The hospital has fewer COVID-19 patients now than it had during the peak in November of 2020, but staff struggle knowing that ...

People whose professions lead to prolonged exposure to other people's trauma can be vulnerable to compassion fatigue, also known as secondary or vicarious trauma; they can experience acute symptoms ...

‘Compassion fatigue’ is widely regarded as the personal cost of caring, but new research from Waipapa Taumata Rau, University of Auckland questions that narrative and suggests that compassion fatigue ...

After serving in the Vietnam War, Charles Figley became interested in the concept of trauma—not only the lasting psychological wounds that people experienced after living through traumatic events ...

“I don’t know how much more I can take,” Shelia*, a new mom, told me during her recent therapy session. David*, a dad who lost his job during the pandemic, is now fighting to support his family. As a ...