I hope this doesn't sounds stupid but I am genuinely confused. Everytime someone else i care around is sad, I suddenly get sad but even more then sad, I get fucking suicidal and depressed. When I try to analyze why this may be the case, I think it's because of overthinking but like isn't that manipulative? Getting sad over someone else's sadness and letting it affect you? Like for example. I was comforting a friend and I think I offered the wrong thing (I offered to distract them by talking about the happy things they were to expect on their weekend) and they said that they were gonna try to distract themselves and sleep and that they didn't want to talk.

Now, from this point my brain had two options pop up. - One: accept that they want some space and continue with the rest of the night. - Two: accept that they need space and overthink everything you said and relaspe because you think you did something wrong. can you guess the one it chose, yep

I hate when this happens because now I feel upset and I have no reason to feel upset! Like genuinely, I don't. It's not my problem but yet my brain decided to make it my problem while I am sitting here hoping that tomorrow I don't wake up and find that my friend hates me. I hate being stupid like this.