Ep# 269 Conscious Compartmentalization
Rekindling: Compassion Fatigue Solutions for Animal Workers
English - April 25, 2024 04:00 - 17 minutes - 24.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 88 ratingsMental Health Health & Fitness Medicine compassionfatigue animalhospital animalshelters animalwelfare burnout veterinarians veterinaryemergency veterinaryhospital veterinaryhospitals veterinarymedicine Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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"Compartmentalization is a defense mechanism in which people mentally separate conflicting thoughts, emotions, or experiences to avoid the discomfort of contradiction" according to Psychology Today. I believe compartmentalization can be an effective coping strategy for people who work in the emotionally charged fields of vet med, animal welfare and lab animal research. But it has to be conscious. Listen and learn what I mean by that.