I was like you in being extremely empathetic. What had helped me is to focus on longer term outcomes for people rather than short term. That really gave my em

I was like you in being extremely empathetic. What had helped me is to focus on longer term outcomes for people rather than short term. That really gave my empathy more perspective and allowed me to see that the “hard” thing that may not seem as empathetic today is the right thing for the people involved in the future. Admittedly, this might just be me creating a mechanism to cope, but it seems to be effective.