This is a condition that describes fatigue inside and out for health workers and the likes who make a living caring for dying people. A mix of psychology and other stresses, it can indeed be debilitating in it’s own right for it has life changing effects. Most doctors and health workers will say they leave their work in the workplace yet that can be farthest from the truth for emotions whether on the job and at home if combined can result in such a disabling type of fatigue.
Emotions cannot be tamed especially since humans are creatures of compassion which seems to be built into mammalian evolution. Elephants mourn their dead and even help infants whose mother’s have been killed. Whales help still born or injured babies to help them survive and the amazing stories of dolphins defending human beings adrift at sea. All these because of an innate urge to care for others. Not everybody can handle such stressful and emotionally straining jobs for they can drive the weak of heart and stomach nuts. Being able to deal with the heartbreak of other people’s conditions doesn’t always mean you will be able to bear the emotional strain forever, which is the pre-cursor of compassion fatigue and it is a growing concern for health officials who are losing people due to the debilitating condition.
Mar
15
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