Triggers by David Richo

Author:David Richo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shambhala
Published: 2019-12-09T16:00:00+00:00

3. Off-Loading

We sometimes try to rid ourselves of some of our grief by getting others to feel it with us or instead of us. We might do off-loading of our own grief by telling the story of our loss to others so that they can cry for or with us. We may tell our story with a dramatic flourish to garner the other’s full attention. We count on the empathy of someone else as a pathway into that person’s implicit agreement to take on some of our suffering. We thereby off-load stress from our own bodies into the bodies of others. Shakespeare’s character Desdemona describes this process in Othello:

He hath left part of his grief with me,

To suffer with him.

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