Too caring

Probably the one thing I would change about myself is that at times I am too caring and that this negatively impacts my mental health.  Even my psychiatrist praises me for being a caring person but he tells me that at times I am too caring.  By that he referring to the time that my concern over a friends behaviour and worrying about her and her children caused an onset of my mental health issues.  I try always to do the right thing and worry too much and care too much for the people in my life.

However, as I age and become wiser this caring side of me grows wiser and don’t let myself worry so much that I become unwell. I have learned the hard way that nothing is worth worrying about so much that it impacts my health.  It is a harsh lesson that I needed to learn.. I am a far wiser person than I was a couple of years ago.