The desire to 'save' others is, at its core, not very altruistic. It's an avoidance mechanism that makes you feel better about yourself, or attempts to at any rate. If you're taking care of someone else's problems you are not the one with problems - 'look how helpful I am! How could I be the problem?!' Or better yet, 'I'm solving your problems, you need to come and solve mine for me now'
It takes a lot of strength to be able to admit that *I* have problems, and *I'm* going to fix that.

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