Emotionally Exhausted? It Could Be Compassion Fatigue

Jeremy Sutton, PhD
2 min readAug 19, 2021

Deep empathy can be damaging

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Giving too much to others and empathizing too deeply–whether personally or professionally–can take its toll.

That doesn’t mean we should stop, but we must practice self-care to avoid emotional exhaustion and compassion fatigue.

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Jeremy Sutton, PhD

Positive & performance psychologist, University of Liverpool lecturer, Owner/Coach FlourishingMinds.xyz