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Scenario

Why healthcare workers develop emotional numbness

I work as a nurse and I see so much suffering every day that I've started to feel nothing when patients die, and that scares me more than the sadness did.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Repeated exposure to trauma necessitates protective dissociation that threatens one's fundamental capacity for connection.

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