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 ...

If you work in a professional setting that deals with other people’s trauma day in and day out — at a hospital, in a psychologist’s office, or at a homeless shelter, for example — you may experience a ...

‘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 ...

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We're all tired and could do with a four-day working week... and have a lot going on in our personal lives. But, while you may have heard of burnout (where prolonged stress affects our wellbeing), ...

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. She ...