I feel your pain.

The article focuses on the risks of too much empathy and how people might be able to control how much they let others' emotions affect them. Topics discussed include the goodness in empathy, how social networks such as Facebook and Twitter indicate just how sensitive people's emotions are to outside influence, and how much one has to care about someone to be infected by their stress. It also explains how empathy overload can happen in the workplace and how to avoid empathy burnout.