Compassion fatigue is not just emotional. It is sensory, physical and biological.

Compassion fatigue is often described as “caring too much for too long”, but that barely touches what is actually happening.

A person does not just give care emotionally. They give it through attention, anticipation, decision-making, patience, listening, remembering, planning, responding and holding themselves steady while someone else needs them.

That is a full-body demand.