Yeah I know what you're saying. I used to feel like that, but then I sort of learned to be like, well if I'm helping them out and feeling for them, then they can help me when I need it. I just try to be unafraid of talking to my friends about my own problems.
I dunno if it's the same thing, but a lot of the time, when I'm feeling really, really empathetic and I might start to cry or whatever, I think to myself that, whatever it is I'm crying about, it's my duty to cry about it. It's my duty to feel for them because they deserve someone to feel for them. Now I'm not saying I like, make myself cry for them. I couldn't stop myself if I tried. I just feel their hurt and I know it doesn't belong to me, and I know it's not really going to help them, but I take it on anyways. It makes so little sense in words, but it's the only way it works in my mind.
I've thought about therapy too, but I ASSUMe they'll treat it like a fear and tell me to "Expose myself to it". Which I have already tried really hard to do and failed multiple times lol. But I don't know. Maybe they won't do that. I always thought that I was like, the only one that this happened to and they'ed have no idea what I was talking about lol.
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