Has anyone else who manages people found a way to compartmentalize their teams issues and not allow themselves to get emotionally involved? Currently within my team of 5 people a number of them have quite mentally taxing and emotionally draining situations to deal with outside of work which I'm very understanding of and supportive in amending their work and arrangements to help them cope and manage their workload effectively. But I am now finding that I myself am struggling to be their emotional support mechanism and am physically dreading them coming in to the office for fear of what they are going to offload onto me. I have tried to direct them to our employee assistance programme, mental health first aiders and wellbeing champions who have had the training to deal with this but I still find that this hasn't reduced the burden they are putting on me. To add to this i have my own things going on outside of work which it isn't appropriate for me to share with them but sometimes what to shout " its not just your problems, others have stuff going on as well" which clearly i can't. My own manager is being super supportive and just keeps telling me to direct them to the relevant services we have, but just feel like i'm struggling and would love to hear how other people manage the mental load of managing people.