Compassion Fatigue Is No Joke

Ingela Canis
7 min readMar 17, 2020

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Compassion can be painful.

The more compassionate you are, the more likely you are to be affected by compassion fatigue, also known as emotional exhaustion, vicarious trauma, secondary traumatic stress or secondary victimization.

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