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How to recover when emotional labor depletes your nervous system

I can handle other people's emotions all day at work but the moment I get home I collapse and cannot function for hours.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The cost of chronic co-regulation without self-regulation eventually overwhelms the system's capacity to restore.

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