657: Does Other People's Pain Trigger Your Anxiety
The Anxiety Coaches Podcast
Gina Ryan
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, Gina discusses the issue of empathy and how people with anxiety are often prone to suffer over the pain of others. Advice is offered on how to support others who are suffering without letting that suffering trigger our own anxiety.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Anxiety Coaches |
| 0:09.3 | Coaches podcast, a relaxing and informative show where we explore anxiety, panic and PTSD sharing how you can overcome them for life. |
| 0:22.0 | Aloha, welcome back to the Anxiety Coaches Podcast. In today's episode, I want to talk to you |
| 0:30.3 | about other people's pain and how that may or may not be triggering your |
| 0:36.5 | anxiety. If other people's pain is triggering your anxiety I want you to pay close attention because this is an |
| 0:45.9 | awesome place for you to be able to not only clear the path a little bit more for you clearing your anxiety, but it will |
| 0:56.4 | also help you in other areas of your life because you may be just being |
| 1:01.6 | over-sensitive or not having strong enough boundaries. |
| 1:06.8 | There are a lot of different reasons why this may come up, but the more you deal with it, the better off you will be all the way around. |
| 1:15.0 | Often people with anxiety have a lot of empathy. |
| 1:20.0 | They are also highly sensitive people and those can be great things. Those will help |
| 1:28.0 | you to be a good listener. It will help you to understand people and you're probably someone who can pick up on |
| 1:37.2 | other people's emotions, pick up on their motives, and to actually be able to read people and these are all |
| 1:45.5 | wonderful things but when we are anxious just like with other things that we do we |
| 1:52.0 | may take this empathy a little bit too far, |
| 1:56.7 | and it may be overwhelming us. |
| 2:01.2 | So sometimes I get email about people writing to me, they are listening to the show and this may be you. |
| 2:11.0 | Listening to the show because someone in their life has health issues |
| 2:17.5 | or may even have anxiety themselves and now they are feeling overwhelmed with the other person's health issues or their |
| 2:26.9 | anxiety. Now this comes up quite often so I don't want you to feel alone or like you're the only person who listens who maybe doesn't have anxiety |
| 2:36.7 | But is trying to help someone else but you may also be the one that is over-concerned or having maybe too much empathy for your |
| 2:47.9 | loved one and that you are trying to help in ways that maybe you are not going to really be able to reach them and it is |
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