✔️Do you feel guilty when you need to shut down for a while?
✔️Are you sometimes not even able to respond to a text, because that is energy you just don't have?
✔️Do you feel weird or weak when you need to hide in your room for a while - or a whole weekend - because you simply cannot take one more bit of stimulation?
✔️Is it almost impossible for you to stop helping, even when you KNOW you are on the way to burn out (or are already there)?
👂 If this sounds familiar, listen up (I speak from real life experience here):
Empaths are more prone to burnout and compassion fatigue than any other group, but they deal with it completely differently.
How so?
A caring non-empath might get to burnout and go numb, get worn out, realize they are going to get sick, and then they will stop helping or shut down (or both). They will detach from the situation and stop caring. A survival instinct kicks in and they stop.
They will, basically, save themselves.
An empath will have all the same issues of sleeplessness, stress, exhaustion, irritability, and increased illness - maybe even serious illnesses - but he or she will NOT stop giving, taking care of whoever or whatever, or basically saving the world.
This is how so many empaths end up seriously ill; they go to the place of total burnout and, despite every sign that they are going to break, they keep pushing forward.
Their need to help overrides their need for self-care.
A sick empath helps no one. Honor your need to recharge. It's okay to shut down. If you don't protect your energy, no one else will do it for you.
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