"You can learn to prevent a storm, or you can learn to ride the storm. If you learn to ride the storm, the storm is not a problem anymore."

Compassion fatigue is a condition that impacts those in the helping profession. Medical professions, first responders, law enforcement, therapists, nurses, and other service providers are the most commonly affected by compassion fatigue and empathic distress. Compassion fatigue includes emotional, cognitive, physical, behavioral, religious and spiritual reactions due to helping clients, patients or victims, typically through stressful or traumatic events. Those who deal with other people’s trauma, grief or life crisis every day may experience compassion fatigue. 

1. Poor job satisfaction
2. Emotional numbness 
3. Anxiety
4. Depression
5. Sleep difficulties
6. Decrease of appetite or nausea
7. Irritability
8. Feeling detached from everything
9. Headaches and body aches
10. Mood swings 
11. Difficulty concentrating and lack of motivation
12. Self-medicating, drinking, gambling, or working too much
13. Self-isolation; feeling emotionally disconnected
14. Moral injury - blaming yourself while thinking you’re not doing enough to help those who are suffering

The World Health Organization defines burnout as "an occupational phenomenon that results from unmanaged chronic workplace stress." Chronic workplace stress can come from coworkers, not feeling supported by one’s supervisor, and poor work culture.  Burnout emerges gradually over time as the work-related attributes continue to pile up and are not addressed. 

1. Depression
2.  Apathy
3.  Easily frustrated
4. Irritability
5. Blaming others
6. Emotional numbness
7. self-isolation
8.  Lack of self-care
9. Feeling constantly tired or extreme fatigue
10. Overwhelmed
11.  Feeling like a failure