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Are You Constantly Feeling Emotionally Tired ? Here's What Empathy Fatigue Is

Empathy fatigue is the inability to care or offer any form of support even when might actually want to do it.

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The past few years have been rough for all of us, although the intensity may vary. But experiencing all of it collectively has affected many of us in a way that has left many of us numb to what once would have invoked empathy.

Our ability to empathise comes with a cost, especially when we're unaware of the limit to which it can be offered.

With so much going on in our own lives from work to family, and many other things that matter, we drain our ability to care, and it eventually results in this term which mental health experts coined as 'empathy fatigue.'
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