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When helping others becomes a way to avoid helping yourself

Three years doing high-altitude rescue work and I've saved seventeen people but I can't shake the feeling that I'm the one who needs saving.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The helper's identity can become a refuge from confronting one's own need for help.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Extreme environments — poles high altitude deep ocean?”

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