When Someone Else's Sadness Became Yours
Your friend was going through something hard, and you wanted to be there for them — so you listened, every day, to all of it. But after a while you noticed you were carrying their sadness around with you. You felt heavy, drained, low, even when nothing was wrong in your own life. Their feelings had somehow become yours. You care about them and you don't want to abandon them. But you're starting to sink under the weight of feelings that aren't even yours, and you don't know how to be a good friend without drowning.
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