Stress sponge

[Anonymous]

I am a stress sponge absorbing all the negativity and heavy things from my kids, dh, parents, in-laws. On the rare days nobody is dumping on me, I feel fantastic and at peace, in my yard, with my pets reading, weeding...Then they explode on me with their issues and I instantly go into a crisis space in my brain, my stomach gets knotted, anxiety surges. How do I stop being that way? It eats me up alive.

[Anonymous]

Are you an empath? I am it's very hard to separate others struggles and your own I internalize others emotions like a sponge. You have to remind yourself of boundaries in your mind and TRY to put yourself first at times. It's a struggle and I don't have all the answers yet its a work in progress.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you an empath? I am it's very hard to separate others struggles and your own I internalize others emotions like a sponge. You have to remind yourself of boundaries in your mind and TRY to put yourself first at times. It's a struggle and I don't have all the answers yet its a work in progress.

Idk, I do know that I absorb the stress of loved ones to the point it clouds my mind entirely. Like today my heart is not into my work because both dh and dcs were dumping stress on me and I can't stop thinking about it, wanting for all of it to be resolved. It's so unhealthy.