How to Avoid Empathy Burnout
Talking about burnout in general, the main factor that appears to cause all types of burnout is negative emotions. From my perspective, the best antidote is to always use logical, intellectual responses to problems, rather than an emotional response. This is also generally more useful than an emotional response. You can train yourself to nip negative emotional responses in the bud, and instead convert them into working out a solution to a problem.<p>For whatever reason, the brain appears to have a limit to the amount of built-up negative emotions it can deal with. Beyond a certain point the result is burnout, depression and psychosomatic illnesses.<p>(source: I suffered from severe burnout, recovered, and have been researching and writing about it for the past 16 years).