Empathy fatigue is the emotional exhaustion that results from consistently absorbing and responding to the pain or trauma of others. Continue to read more about it.

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 ...

Compassion fatigue used to be a problem that was most commonly seen among health care professionals. Because their work puts them in situations where they commonly see or hear about ongoing and ...

This is called compassion fatigue. Compassion fatigue is a term that describes the physical, emotional, and psychological impact of helping others — often through experiences of stress or trauma.

But as much as it may feel imperative to stay fully engaged in the tragic updates and charged conversations about Israel and Gaza, doing so without boundaries may lead to compassion fatigue ...

Sandy Bruno, youth and family coordinator at Comfort Zone Camp, a national nonprofit bereavement camp for grieving families, experienced compassion fatigue in the aftermath of her husband's death.

Rather, it may be a sign that you have “compassion fatigue”. Compassion fatigue is a stress response that results in feelings of apathy or indifference towards those who are suffering.

This is a portrait of compassion fatigue—a phenomenon infiltrating workplaces, causing employee irritability and burnout, and dividing once cohesive teams that are supposed to thrive together.