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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.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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

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