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Day after day, you can listen to the darkest moments of broken lives. Mental Health professionals who regularly treat victims of trauma great - whether from the fight against crime, the harm or loss - expected to empathize with their patients without the horrors to rub off.Most manage the trick. Some don’t, falling victim to the same problems and symptoms they seek to treat.

Experts call it "compassion fatigue," "vicarious trauma" or "secondary trauma." By any name, it is a phenomenon that has gained wider attention in recent years.Now, in the aftermath of the largest mass shooting at a military installation in the nation’s history, officials are examining whether the 39-year-old Army psychiatrist who allegedly carried out Thursday’s slaughter had been affected by the miseries to which he was exposed as he treated soldiers at Fort Hood.Army Secretary John M. McHugh, while visiting the Texas base Friday, said investigators would seek to determine whether stress played a role in the attack, which left 13 people dead an29wounded. More generally, McHugh said, military officials will look to develop a portrait of "what drives people to do desperate things."

Relatives of the alleged shooter, Major Nidal Hassan Malik, who said he was "ashamed" of his impending operation in Afghanistan since the "horror stories" she heard every day of the return of soldiers who suffer from post-traumatic stress - traumatic.