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What does compassion fatigue mean?

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Noun
  1. Exhaustion of the capacity to react with sympathy to another's misfortune owing to one's overexposure to previous misfortunes.
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The scale of the public response shows compassion fatigue is a myth.
And the television viewers and radio listeners and newspaper readers are suffering from compassion fatigue.
I teach a course for health care professionals on burnout, secondary trauma and compassion fatigue.
Whether it is global catastrophe or death on our doorstep, compassion fatigue can overcome us.
But by this point, many a reader, having long since succumbed to compassion fatigue, will suffer from irony fatigue as well.
It just shows that Children in Need is not something people get compassion fatigue about.

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