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These signs include seeing if they are regularly tired or losing joy at work, and to make the effort to understand the struggles they are facing and to intervene to address the fatigue.

Grief therapist Liese Groot-Alberts from the Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network, highlighted the importance of awareness and early diagnosis in picking up on compassion fatigue.

She told CNA’s Singapore Tonight: “Personally for every healthcare professional, it is about an awareness (and) checking in within oneself: Where is my joy? How much energy do I have?”

Ms Groot-Alberts said compassion fatigue impacts people's physical, em