According to the 10 Signs of an Empath thread,
I am definitely NOT an empath.
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Itâs OK, no one is.
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Yeah itâd not a legit thing. People have varying degrees of empathy.
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Yep. Just some people have a lot of empathy and some have none.
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I have a touch of sociopathy, I am constantly having to mind my behaviour.
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NoâŚit is a real thing. Since the word has been bounced around I realize that someone I knew has a name for her life experience. Itâs not just a matter of having more or less empathy.
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There is no such thing as âAn Empathâ - its just people with poor social skills
and low self- esteem, that are trying to dress up their own insecuritys to sound better to the public.
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I work in a salvation army shop and have had the chance to meet a lot of the people that worked with helping other back into employment via work programs in the shops. They are warm people who care about others, and I guess they can be found a lot of places in the world. One of the company mottos was, strong people donât push others down, they help them up.
I consider myself a empath too. But ofcourse it depends on the definition of empath. Although I try to be kind, I am not naive.
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I believe there is. Just look at children, some are very sensitive others are not. I think there are differences in how we react to our surrounding.
But I might be wrong??
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Me and my brothers gf rank high on the empathy scale while my brother displays very little empathy if any.
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Nah sorry i dont buy it. To me its in the same realm as the âpsychicsâ we have on the seafront in summer that will massage your ego and tell you what you want to hear for ÂŁ20 quid.
Children are simply sensitive cos they havent learnt any life skills yet.
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Perhaps you are right? I donât know? I hope you are right.
Hereâs an article about the subject though.
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I agree. Itâs a mix of low social intelligence, making you not understand where your feelings and intuitions come from, and poor emotion regulation, causing you to overestimate the magnitude of your own emotions compared to othersâ and finding them difficult to endure, with low self-esteem, prompting you to come up with a positive way of explaining your experiences.
In my experience, people who call themselves empaths are not very empathetic people. We donât need magic to explain empathy and intuition either.
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I donât really get what an empath is.
According to Google it is the capacity to put your self in anotherâs shoes.
I mean though no one can do that hundred percent, I feel most people can sort of do this.
Unless you are 100 percent sociopath
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Itâs a new agey sort of concept about people who have magical powers of extremely heightened empathy. People use it as an excuse for all sorts of things, or as a way of making themselves seem like better and kinder people than others. And if you feel you need to do that, you most likely arenât.
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Yeah I am starting to believe that âempathsâ donât exist either.
Itâs just more new age mumbo jumbo.
What I am is a highly sensitive person and I donât see this as being a good thing.
Growing up I havenât learned to take control of my emotions.
The end result is dealing with lots of anxiety and bipolar disorder.
Being highly sensitive is more of a curse than anything else.
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From personal experience I feel Iâm a kind person at heart but afraid of being hurt or used or something so instead I can seem cold or upstuck or something to some people sometimes.
I donât think there is such thing as better people because they are doing more for others.
Because thereâs a reason why everyone is the way they are. Seems unfair to call someone who for example has the energy to compliment more as a better person.
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I agree. I was never able to date because I was too shy, too nervous etc. I suffer from panic attacks and that alone had turned me to a recluse and a nut job. I donât have any social skills etc.
I do believe empathy exists but I am not one of them. I am highly sensitive though but thatâs because of anxiety and not because Iâm tuned in on others.
Or I even feel âunworthyâ to âhelpâ at often times lol
Bravo @anon9798425 and @Naarai
Your posts have definitely made me see the light.
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