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Compassion Fatigue Disease of the 21st Century
Mostly unrecognized, Compassion Fatigue costs the healthcare industry millions of dollars each year in stress, burnout and turnover. Since the national trauma of 9/11, Compassion Fatigue increasingly affects the rest of society with constant exposure.

Details: A debilitating weariness brought about by repetitive, empathic response to pain and suffering, compassion fatigue is a result of absorbing and internalizing the emotions of clients and, sometimes, coworkers, explains Karl LaRowe, MA, LCSW. It's an occupational hazard that may affect any professional who works day in and day out with those who are physically, mentally, or emotionally challenged or those who have been traumatized - whether by illness, violence or other tragedies.

Compassion fatigue, says LaRowe, is nothing less than secondary traumatic stress, and its effects are much the same as those of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The signs and symptoms, he observes, at first tend to be psychological and emotional, but may soon become behavioral, physical, and spiritual. The repercussions, both personal and professional, are costly. Compassion fatigue,' LaRowe explains, 'can result in distraction, hypersensitivity, overload, and misperception in our communications with self and others.' It frequently leads, he adds, to physical illness, and to the No. 1 ailment of caregivers: depression. LaRowe notes that the comorbid conditions most often associated with and closely related to trauma is depression.

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