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When someone else's pain becomes too much to carry

My coworker keeps sharing very personal details about her divorce and I want to be supportive but I'm starting to dread seeing her because it's emotionally exhausting.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Compassion fatigue emerges when boundaries between empathy and emotional overwhelm become unclear.

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