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When empathy becomes a burden

I can feel other people's emotions so strongly it overwhelms me but I do not know how to turn it off.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Undifferentiated empathy lacks the boundaries necessary to distinguish between feeling with and feeling for another.

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