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Empathy fatigue (also called Compassion Fatigue) is an epidemic in healthcare. You give and give until your own personal tank of energy and empathy is empty â¦. then what happens? Often it is behavior that is reactive, dismissive, demeaning to the very people we are called to serve and heal.
Is there a solution to empathy fatigue? One cannot provide a âsolutionâ for empathy fatigue because it involves an ongoing commitment to self-care, wellness and conscious awareness of oneâs empathy fatigue triggers. I am also beginning to understand that it does not matter how close one is to the epicenter of extraordinary stressful and traumatic events in order to be affected by empathy fatigue.