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My Top Tip for Avoiding Compassion Fatigue as a Caregiver

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What’s Compassion Fatigue? One useful definition of “compassion fatigue” is: a condition of emotional and physical exhaustion making it hard to care, usually because of initially caring too much for too long while neglecting one’s own personal needs.

Compassion fatigue can also be referred to as secondary traumatic stress. Yeah, you might have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Not because you held your dying comrade, although you might have. Not necessarily because of abuse or neglect or being scared to death or injured.

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