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Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Empathy

Get Pocket: An Excess of Empathy Can Be Bad for Your Mental Health - Here are three steps for overcoming the distress caused by a surfeit of empathy. By Trudy Meehan and Jolanta Burke

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3 comments:

Mark said...

Yeah.
It took me decades to figure out that I experience somatic empathy, usually detrimental. It's very hard for me to achieve a therapeutic level of "professional distance", the kind that good teachers and health care workers have.

11:05 AM
Jim Sande said...

I bet somewhere in it, there's a silver lining.

1:06 PM
Mark said...

It does afford me occasional x-ray vision to see 'inner guts' - emotional landscape, so to speak. It's a power I could do without.
In this case, I prefer the blue pill for contented Ignorance.

3:46 PM

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