Seen in those who courageously took up the role of saving lives through social platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic, compassion fatigue happens often and severely. This phenomenon, often associated with the overwhelming exposure to suffering and the constant demand for empathy, poses a unique challenge to those engaging in social media activism. “Compassion fatigue” is considered a psychological condition in which the ability to be compassionate lessens over time due to exposure to traumatic events and trauma victims (Sorenson et al. 2017). An example stated by Stoewen (2020) simplifying terms is:”Sympathy is “I care about your suffering,” empathy is “I feel your suffering,” and compassion is “I want to relieve your suffering.”With the rise of information dissemination on social media, it is not uncommon for armchair activists to face something previously common in healthcare professionals. Residents of the United Kingdom underwent psychological transformations consequent to their vicarious exposure to media coverage of the terrorist attacks on the United States (Linley et al., 2003). Likewise, students enrolled at a distinct educational institution articulated a surge in acute stress symptoms upon assimilating information about the shootings at Virginia Tech through televised channels (Fallahi & Lesik, 2009).

Nevertheless, the ephemerality inherent in digital engagement prompts inquiries into its enduring viability and lasting repercussions. The individual undergoing such experiences tends to shift towards a task-centric orientation, diminishing emotional focus, and fostering an escalating withdrawal from interpersonal connections, leading to social isolation. Another characteristic manifestation is the manifestation of profound physical and emotional depletion, characterised vividly as a pervasive fatigue saturating every facet of one's existence. This exhaustive state significantly compromises cognitive, emotional, and behavioural faculties, which collectively constitute the pillars of diurnal functioning. The consequences of compassion fatigue encompass a spectrum of adverse emotional states, comprising but not limited to anger, irritation, intolerance, irritability, scepticism, cynicism, embitterment, and resentfulness. These symptoms invariably precipitate interpersonal challenges, manifesting in difficulties harmonising with others and disruptions in intimate relationships, culminating in emotional distress, disillusionments, and a sense of detachment. Concurrently, there may be observable shifts in mood, manifesting as mood swings, tearfulness, anxiety, irrational fears, melancholy, sadness, and despair. In the immediate term, compassion fatigue may serve as an underpinning for an array of psychosomatic physical health complaints (such as fatigue , insomnia, aches and pains), encompassing headaches, migraines, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, chronic pain, and fatigue. Elevated cortisol levels  accompanying this condition contribute to heightened vulnerability to illness. Over a prolonged  duration, the enduring repercussions of compassion fatigue extend to an incrased predisposition to cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes, as well as various gastrointestinal conditions and compromised immune function. (Mathieu, 2012; Hooper et al. 2010; Warshaw, 1990)