Emotional sponging: how absorbing other people’s negative emotions can damage our own wellbeing

Emotional sponging: how absorbing other peopleu2019s negative emotions can damage our own wellbeing

What is emotional sponging and why is it bad?

Frame Of Mind

Signs you’re acting as an emotional sponge for someone else

How to deal with being someone’s emotional sponge 

&nbsp;And if you realise someone else is&nbsp;your emotional sponge?

It’s all about trying to balance negative moods – at the expense of your own. 