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When empathy becomes overwhelming and isolating

I feel other people's pain so intensely that I avoid the news and cannot watch movies with any conflict.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

An open nervous system without proper boundaries can absorb collective suffering as personal experience.

Ideas that help explain it
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“Where Are You with Polyvagal theory in practice?”

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