"People who choose to go into the relatively low-paying helping professions usually have a sense of mission. They are compassionate and caring, which makes them especially vulnerable to the excessive demands that are made on them. The population they're dealing with is in extreme need. It is composed of troubled or deprived human beings with a void so huge it is impossible to fill it. These people take, drain, demand. They require continual giving and assume an endless supply on the part of the helper. Unless the worker remains aware of his limitations as a human being, he will begin to burn out. And once he does, the conditions of the job will speed him on his way." (H.Freudenberger,p.157-158, Burn-out: the high cost of high achievement, 1980)
Burn-out by Bethanne Frazer, MS, ATR-P
