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Something that a lot of people lack these days. The ability to imagine yourself in someone else’s shoes, and feel what others feel. You’d typically be very caring and for sure an overthinker.
When you always make things about you. It has become a modern buzz word for narcissistic women who are transparently projecting their own delusion that they have some exceptional power to feel and sense the emotions of others. while it seems that every woman you meet is a self described empath, the reality is that only 16% of the population has any quantifiable empathy levels above average, and yes it can be reliably tested for it. Furthermore, empathy is not a useful personality trait. In personal relationships, it can cloud your judgment and your ability to give advice or be of assistance to a friend in need. Worse yet is it’s inability to be applied to any large scale decision making. People literally cannot feel empathy for more than a couple of people at a time, generally three. Any tragedy greater than three people is generally of no differing consequence to someone of extremely high empathy. They simply short-circuit. They are useless at population management, political policy, as they try and personalize everything and get emotionally sidetracked with issues that affect all populations. They won’t flip a switch redirecting a train so that it only kills five people in a work zone, instead of slamming into a pact train station killing hundreds. -a example of one of the thought experiments done to test peoples ethical decision making. Empaths always fail, causing disastrous hypothetical results.
“I’m really sorry that my mother passing away makes you so upset Bridget, let me leave the funeral and come make sure you are OK, I know it must be hard having so much empathy.”
Made up bullshit fellacy cooked up by the government to make me not feel bad not for having.
Fuck your empathy and your dead cousin too! Can't make my ass feel bad that your grandma can't walk anymore.
Some mother fucker: yo my grandma can't walk anymore! Lady week my cousin died too! I'm so sad and genuinely fucked up.
Me: cool story bro, but that empathy shit don't work on me! Eat ass.
Too much empathy for your own good. Putting yourself in unhealthy situations for the benefit of someone else.
Jacob gave his only winter coat to his friend who didn’t have one. Now Jacob no longer has a coat himself. Jacob struggles with chronic empathy
Hym "Ultra-Omega Psychology Genius! That entire segment about selective empathy is downstream from my thing! How am I THIS GOOD at everything!? I have to have like 1 million citations at this point. Wait, is it 937 kills or is it 937 PhDs? Assists? No, that would suck. 937 isn't a lot of assists...So, it's gotta be PhDs. 937 PhDs! The single greatest psychologizer in the history of humanity!"
When a writer publishes a book/series and actually interprets the book like a reader while they were proof-reading and ends up empathizing with their own characters. Getting invested in their own story.
Person 1: I just finished proof reading my novel
Person 2: Ooh cool! Found any errors?
Person 1: I was too distracted, I ended up skipping over the errors because I got invested in the plot.
Person 2: But wait, didn’t you write the plot?
Person 1: exactly!!
Person 2: wow, so you got Post-Written Empathy the whole time?
Person 1: YES, WHY AM I INVESTED?? ITS MY OWN STORY
The phenomenon of becoming overwhelmed by empathy, often regarding a personal tragedy, sometimes resulting in sobbing about issues and events that have no direct connection to the person suffering the empathy attack, as if overtaken by the feelings and/or experiences of another person that one has compassion for.
I woke up last night and had an empathy attack when I thought about my friend’s loss, and couldn’t stop crying even though it had nothing to do with me. No one should have to go through what they went through.