Empathy... and empaths. Is the empathy we talk about in the world as a good thing and what empaths have the same?
Empathy ((Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within the other being"s frame of reference, i.e., the capacity to place oneself in another"s position.[1] There are many definitions for empathy which encompass a broad range of emotional states. Types of empathy include cognitive empathy, emotional empathy, and somatic empathy.[2] In the development of human empathy, individual differences appear, ranging from no apparent empathic ability, or empathy which is harmful to self or others, to well-balanced empathy, including the ability to distinguish between self and other.[3] Various theories and aspects of empathy have been researched, including empathy within nonhuman animals.)) as psychologists have it, is not the capacity to feel another"s feeling as your own. That is the "extrasensory" ability of an empath: more a nuisance than a good thing.
Empathy, as psychologists have it, as evolution has, probably, intended, is the ability to recognize another"s feeling and have mercy for them, sympathy for them, want to help them.
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