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When the burden of caring for others becomes too much to handle, the result can be more than just burnout.

Compassion fatigue can cause those in helping professions lose the ability to maintain a healthy balance of empathy and objectivity.

Psychologist Susan Fletcher will speak about compassion fatigue, also known as secondary traumatic stress disorder, at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Nursing on April 2.

Fletcher, from Plano, said compassion fatigue happens to people in a helping profession when they dont take care of themselves. They tend to do more than burn out, she explained.

Burnout is obvious, and compassion fatigue is subtle.

Oftentimes, people experiencing compassion fatigue begin to make mistakes, she said.

Nurses could give the wrong dose of medicine, or physicians could read something wrong on a chart.

You know its not normal when it interferes with their personal life, she said. It interferes with their health, their personal life, their ability to do their job.

Compassion fatigue is common in professionals who are asked to do more with less, Fletcher explained. In the current state of the economy, she said, the susceptibility is startling.

Everyone in a helping profession is susceptible to compassion fatigue, from teachers, to administrators, to flight attendants, to financial advisors.

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