Compassion fatigue is a secondary traumatic stress condition that is impacting the lives of professional caregivers and family caregivers all around our country, and of course abroad. It is difficult ...

Truly caring for or about someone can be exhausting — hence the term compassion fatigue. The phrase was first coined in 1992 by a nurse, Carla Joinson, to describe the physical, emotional, and ...

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 ...

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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 ...

It's hard to grasp that caring too much for a sick person can hurt. But that's exactly what can happen to personal and professional caregivers who experience "compassion fatigue." They begin to feel ...

Hospitals are exerting more effort to combat nurses’ compassion fatigue, which is a combination of secondary traumatic stress and burnout that leaves caregivers feeling less empathetic and even ...

Julliette Watt says compassion fatigue is when “giving is no longer living.” She says, “Ask yourself what is the most important thing in your life? You’re going to say your children, your family, ...

It’s ok to not be ok, but we don’t want you to stay that way. In the season finale, we find one member of the group is stretched thin by taking care of everyone in their life except themselves. If you ...