i've never understood this term in the way you people seem to use it here.
people that seem to be easily taken advantage of as Empaths seems like an oxymoron to me......
i would like to actively engage in this topic there are people honestly willing to discuss.
what are the characteristics of an empath?
who here believes themselves to be one?
who here has had direct interaction with one?
Being an empath (non-scientific term btw) is when you are affected by other people’s energies, and have an innate ability to intuitively feel and perceive others. Being an empath is much more than being highly sensitive. Empaths can perceive physical sensitivities and just innately know people's motivations and intentions. You either are an empath or you aren’t. It’s not a learned trait.
Empaths are often quiet achievers. They can be highly expressive and talk openly, and, at times very frankly. However, they can also be reclusive and unresponsive. Some are very good at “blocking out†others and that’s not always a bad thing, for the learning empath struggling ti cope with a barrage of emotions from others, as well as their own.
Ultimately, empaths have a tendency to openly feel what is outside of them more so than what is inside of them.
That you so much Doc!
i could not have put in better terms of definition...literally
the largely accepted notion here was seemed to be that Sociopaths always preyed on Empaths......
they fooled them into believing Empaths that they were something they were not, that they gave these "Empaths" everything they could have wanted then they found out it was all a LIE! lol
these notions have never sat well with me. that empaths were so common and easily taken advantage of if they could truly put themselves in another's place and know what they needed and wanted.
that Sociopaths had such low to nil empathy to be able to blend and supply people with so much to seemly only get what they wanted......
i never understood why Sociopath and Empath describe 2 completely separate and different things.....
i always wondered if there was a such thing as a Sympath?
by OrangeYou mean to tell me you don't know? People with emotions are obviously exploitable, pathetic, weak sheep. Herd mentality. We are the 1%.
Feral.
Nah, whereas you'd have to reason through every little dilemma, us emotional creatures have a brilliant shortcut. Any strength comes with its weaknesses though, the same goes for having vulnerability via emotions.
As for empathy. I have cognitive empathy. It's basically where I can say, "you stubbed your toe, it must have hurt for a second".