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| --- | --- |\n| Exhaustion | Increased use of alcohol and drugs | Emotional exhaustion |\n| Insomnia | Anger and Irritability at home and/ or at work | Negative self-image |\n| Headaches | Avoidance of clients/patients | Depression |\n| Increased susceptibility to illness | Watching excessive amounts of TV at night | Increased anxiety |\n| Sore back and neck | Consuming high trauma media as entertainment | Dif culty sleeping |\n| Irritable bowel, gastrointestinal distress | Not returning phone calls at work and/or at home | Impaired appetite or binge eating |\n| Rashes, breakouts | Avoiding colleagues and staff gatherings | Feelings of hopelessness |\n| Grinding your teeth at night | Avoiding social events | Guilt |\n| Heart palpitations | Impaired ability to make decisions | Reduced ability to feel sympathy and empathy towards clients or family/friends |\n| Hypochondria | Feeling helpless when hearing adif cult client story | Cynicism at work |\n|  | Impostor syndrome – feeling unskilled in your job | Anger at work |\n|  | Problems in personal relationships | Resentment of demands being put on you at work and/or at home |\n|  | Dif culty with sex and intimacy due to trauma exposure at work | Dread of working with certain client’s certain case les |\n|  | Thinking about quitting your job | Diminished sense of enjoyment/ career (i.e. , low compassion satisfaction) |\n|  | Compromised care for clients/ patients | Depersonalisation – spacing out during work or the drive home |\n|  | Engaging in frequent negative gossip/venting at work | Disruption of world view/ heightened anxiety or irrational fears |\n|  | Impaired appetite or binge eating | Intrusive imagery |\n|  |  | Hypersensitivity to emotionally charged stimuli |\n|  |  | Insensitivity to emotional material/ numbing |\n|  |  | Dif culty separating personal and professional lives |\n|  |  | Failure to nurture and develop non-work related aspects of life |\n|  |  | Suicidal thoughts 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