Do you have empathy for others////////?

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do you have empathy for others////////?

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I do. Always have.

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I’m a nursing student I need to have empathy.

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too much in my case

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I think I do for those that are worthy of it

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I think empathy is a very important part of being a moral human being, but if you try to empathize with every victim out there you will be overwhelmed. Humanity is so inhuman to other human beings that the mind gets numbed when it tries to empathize with all the people who have had horrors perpetrated upon them by other people. Joseph Stalin once said, “One death is a tragedy. A million is a statistic.” (I sometimes wonder if he intended any irony when he said that.) I can blithely roll off statistics of different massacres in history. I couldn’t possibly empathize with every victim. Maybe it is morally jaded to think this way. There is something scary about saying, “If we take this course of action, twenty thousand people will die, but it we don’t take it, five hundred thousand will die.” Allowing your country to take actions that will cause the deaths of tens of thousands of people is scary.

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Yeah. I actually think mental illness helped me develop it. Before I had my first major depressive episode I did not have any type of empathy.

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Agree with the above poster, I also was antisocial and not friendly to most people in my prodromal teenage years…once I’d been 5150’d, I had a lot more respect for people in general and especially those going through hardships. Once pain has been felt, it is easy to recognize in others.

I used to be all goth in high school, like back in the 90’s, just steer clear from me! Now, I’m much more normally social and I like to be around people (as exhausting as that might be on me, it still feels good).

I think I had small empathy before and a lot of empathy now! I’m more sensitive and more balanced emotionally (although that could also be the years of therapy lol), but def the torture of psychosis made me sensitive to the pain of others.

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Plenty of Empathy for others.
Too much.

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Honestly, I have very little. I have difficulty forming attachments to those around me. Mrs. Pixel and Princess Pixel, you bet. Pixel Kitty, yes. When I’m empathetic to others, it’s because I know I need to be, but not because I feel any sort of need. I’m told I have some features of sociopathy.

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my mi makes it hard for me to understand people. it’s hard to be empathetic to people i can’t understand.

Insensitivity?
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My pickle jars are empty.
Talk to me after the first.

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Yes I do. Too much sometimes.

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Came back from my Mom’s yesterday, she gave me a gallon sized jar of pickles!
Kinds creepy.

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Can I have a pickle? I’ve been good :stuck_out_tongue:

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Sure you can!
We can have a pickle party.

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Thank you. I’ll bring my fedora and sunglasses :sunglasses:

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You understand now, don’tcha, that any man in a Fedora is entitled to as many pickles as he wants, it’s the law. :spy:
:grin:

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Yes, I do… Too much, actually. I’ve been told that I seem apathetic about other people’s emotions, but in reality it makes me feel so terrible inside that I can hardly cope with it. I can’t read the news for many reasons… It affects me way too much.

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I think I do. Although I don’t have as much as some. Sometimes I wonder if I don’t have empathy but just a conscience.

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