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When volunteer burnout makes charity feel like burden

I have been volunteering at the homeless shelter for three years but lately I just feel burned out and resentful and I don't know if that still counts as good work.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The sustainability of charitable action becomes questionable when emotional exhaustion replaces genuine compassion.

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