Compassion fatigue - 6 Minute English

Vocabulary compassion fatigue emotional exhaustion which reduces your ability to empathise or feel compassion for other people’s unhappiness and pain numb unable to feel any emotions or think clearly because you are so shocked, frightened or tired learned helplessness psychologically giving up trying to feel better because your previous attempts have not been successful or rewarded finite limited or having a definite, fixed size headwinds forces blowing in the opposite direction which stop you moving forward news cycle the reporting in the media of a particular news story, from the first instance to the last, as well as people’s reactions and opinions on the original report