“Symptoms include behavioral changes (becoming easily startled, a reduced ability to remain objective), physical changes (exhaustion, anxiety and cardiac symptoms) and emotional changes (numbness, depression, ‘decreased sense of purpose’). It is an important framework in professions such as nursing, where over-exposure to trauma can lead to health problems for the nurses and worsened outcomes for patients. But it can and has been applied to the general population, too, especially when we are saturated with pleas for attention.” Elisa Gabbert in The Guardian: Is compassion fatigue inevitable in an age of 24-hour news? (Why do people get too tired for compassion but always have enough energy for hate?)