Have you ever been in a situation where you intended to help your friend when, all of a sudden, their relationship problems became yours? Maybe you're a little too friendly. Hello, my name is William Bouchard and I would like to thank you, school counselors, for being present at this meeting on the stress level and workload of students. I want to persuade you that too much sympathy is a bad thing. Specifically, I want to talk about the problems that arise from an overly friendly person who tends to take on other people's problems. I'll look at how easily people communicate their feelings, how many people get stuck in these kinds of situations, and how problematic they can become. Harvard graduate Martha Beck explains that humans are naturally very good at perceiving the emotions of others. She calls this phenomenon Emotional Sponginess. We're so good, in fact, that it was stated in a study by biologist Rupert Sheldrake, PhD, called Telepathy Telepathy: "When subjects were asked to guess which friend or relative was calling them, they were much more accurate than one might expect. by chance." The belief in the study was that subjects could tell which friend needed their support, love, or sympathy before said friend or relative called (Beck). If you want a summary of This study is that we know how our friends and family feel even when they are not in the same room as us. According to Beck, many people tend to pick up on a lot of emotional energy. whether they assume people's emotional feelings or the general feelings around them If we step back, we realize that this happens in many things that we do. For example, fashions, fashions and financial strategies are. all mixed in the middle of the paper with anxiety, sadness, indignation and other inexplicable feelings Beck attributes her unhappiness to the idea that Virginia was too much of an emotional sponge and did not protect herself well from others. feelings of others. Instead, she let them take over. In conclusion, too much sympathy can harm an individual. To our advantage, we have two branches in our nervous system. Although we may feel like we are helping others with our sympathy, when we choose to use too much of the wrong branch, we only hurt ourselves. Works Cited Beck, Martha. “The people of sponges”. Oprah. June 2006. The web. February 26, 2014. Collingwoood, Jane. “The physical effects of long-term stress”. Psychology Center. 2007. Internet. February 26, 2014. < http://psychcentral.com/lib/the-physical-effects-of-long-term-stress/000935>