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Thursday.Terminology || “Unfriend” is Oxford Dictionary’s Word of 2009

Earlier this week, the New Oxford American Dictionary chose the Facebook-related word “unfriend” as its word of the year. Not everyone agrees on ‘unfriend’ being the term used, over ‘de-friend’. Now that I think about it, I don’t know which I would have used. The definition is obvious enough:
“To remove someone as a ‘friend’ on [...]

Thursday.Terminology || Have You Heard of “Compassion Fatigue”?

From the Compassion Fatigue Awareness Project:
Caring too much can hurt. When caregivers focus on others without practicing self-care, destructive behaviors can surface. Apathy, isolation, bottled up emotions and substance abuse head a long list of symptoms associated with the secondary traumatic stress disorder now labeled: Compassion Fatigue.

The only reason I know what this means is [...]