I don't know about you but I am avoiding the news today. I can't see one more pelican in a ardboard box looking up helplessly - covered with oil.
In a recent training in NC I was going over the 'compassion fatigue' concept when a student said, "Finally a name to what I'm feeling!"
CF is the opposite of not caring, it's having too much to care about. In this profession in addition to the 'work' there are troubles of our co workers, our family and then up comes another disaster.