Comment with a ❤️ you can't go to sleep some nights because every time you close your eyes you are imagining people in pain who you can't help.
Or if you say "I'm sorry" 1,000 times a day for every little thing, not because you actually did anything to apologize for, but because it's such a habit to think that you somehow should have seen someone's need coming and psychically fixed it before it ever became an issue.
Or if you simply don't know how to stop helping, because you feel like if you don't help, who will?
All of these experiences are common for empaths, and, combined, they are what I call "hyper-responsibility syndrome."
Because we feel the world's needs and pain and emotions all. the. time, we also want to help heal those needs and pain all. the. time.
We don't put it down. We don't know how to put it down. We just know that someone is in pain and we need to stop it, not only to help that person, but also to make the pain we are feeling from them stop.
On top of that, many empaths are raised in narcissistic families, where your sensitivity and kindness was used to help serve the needs of the narcissist, particularly if he or she had a victim mentality.
For instance, if you had a parent that was always unwell or depressed (or pretended to be to get people to do things he or she wanted), you could feel that. As a kid, we all want our parents to be happy, so you likely tried your best to make that parent happy.
And, when you couldn't succeed, you took that on as your failing.
Fast forward, and your inner child still feels like somehow you should make everyone in the whole world okay, and, if you can't, it's your failing.
That's hyper-responsibility syndrome, and it's exhausting.
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