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Was about to comment the same till I found your comment.

I have this compulsion too, and did some deep-diving at some point through therapy. I found that really it's just likely conditioning from family/society.

If you are generally praised for helping out whilst growing up and this is when you receive a lot of love/attention, it's natural to build pathways that favour this and thus behavioural patterns.





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