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Stuff Mom Never Told You

Too Much Empathy

Stuff Mom Never Told You

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.04.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Is it possible to have too much empathy?

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1:55.0

And today Samantha is once again joining us.

2:00.0

Hey, thanks so much for being here as always.

2:04.0

And as always, yes, I like that.

2:06.0

This episode, I'm really relying on you a lot because this is something that I think you have had a lot of personal experience with.

2:17.0

And in you and I, when we were having a discussion on what these episodes and what the series should look like, I was very passionate about one to talk about my people's the case workers out there, the therapist, the trauma workers, the second responders.

2:32.0

Because I think we don't talk enough about helping and caring for those people who often see the worst in the worst of society.

2:43.0

So yeah, here we go, because I'm going to talk a lot about personal experience of that. I hope you're ready.

2:48.0

Yeah, because we're talking about empathy and having too much of it, because on this, if we were looking at an arc of our mini series, we're kind of on the other end or like towards the end of the season.

3:02.0

And a lot of people do after they go through a traumatic event, they do feel inspired or even like through survivor's guilt or there's something that makes them want to help others so they can either prevent it from happening to others or help other people who've gone through something similar work through it.

3:20.0

And that can be something very triggering, retraumatizing.

3:30.0

So yeah, this question of empathy and can you have too much of it?

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