Every fibre of your body is

twitching with a desire to fix it,

solve it, offer a solution to it.

You’re Solving the Problem Yourself

Your team has trained you well to do their work for them. Any
time there’s a problem, rather than trying to figure it out
themselves, they now come to you for the answer. It feels (at times
at least) as if it’s easier that way for you and for them, but you may
also be noticing that sense of overwhelm that comes from having
to do your own job and some of the jobs of the others on your
team. If you were in a therapist’s office, at this stage the therapist
would nod her head sagely and mutter “hmmm... co-dependent.”

You’re Not Solving the Problem

It’s not like you don’t have your own work to do. And now you’ve
found yourself responsible for solving everyone else’s problems,
too. And perhaps you don’t actually have the answer to hand, so
you ignore that email or you put it back in your in-tray or you
make a vague promise about providing an answer in the near, but
not too near, future. Suddenly you’re stopping progress. Not only
is the team overly dependent on you, but now you’re feeling
overwhelmed and you’re slowing everything and everyone down.