Your 2025 Survival Guide for the Emotionally Overloaded

How to practice balanced and sustainable empathy

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“I need a win.”

I’ve repeated this to myself a hundred times, like a mantra. Lately, I’ve been feeling suffocated, drained, and tired.
Why? Because I’m emotionally burnt out.

I’ve been mad — at others, yes, but mostly at myself for falling back into old, toxic patterns: getting dragged into problems that aren’t mine, giving more than I probably should, and growing increasingly frustrated when I’m not seen or heard, despite expressing how I feel. That frustration? It builds and builds until it bursts out of me in ways I barely recognize. And afterward? Guilt.

Have you ever felt that way too?

Well, I recently learned about something called compassion fatigue, and, oh, did it resonate with me.

Empathy: gift or curse?

Let’s be brutally honest. In today’s individualistic world, empathy can sometimes feel like a curse.

Don’t get me wrong — kindness and empathy are crucial and they’re exactly what the world needs more of.
But the problem arises when they’re not evenly distributed.