compassion fatigue

1. fatigue, emotional distress, or apathy resulting from the constant demands of caring for others or from constant appeals from charities:

   compassion fatigue experienced by doctors and nurses.

compassion fatigue

noun

1. the inability to react sympathetically to a crisis, disaster, etc, because of overexposure to previous crises, disasters, etc

Word History and Origins

Origin of compassion fatigue¹

1980–85, Americanism

Example Sentences

And the television viewers and radio listeners and newspaper readers are suffering from compassion fatigue.

From The Daily Beast