I like helping people but then I get empathy fatigue and need to be done ...need a break

My friend says the same thing, she says she feels like a piece of meat people want a cut of.

I'm very much a person people go to for help on stuff and yeah, there are some folks where it's restorative to help them, and with others it's just draining. When the relationship becomes nothing but you being mined for your emotional labour it's pretty brutal.

tell them go get forked

Then you need to set boundaries. They can’t do that unless you allow it.

For your own sanity, step back.