Do I have have emphathy? Third party opinion needed.
Does understanding the situation and knowing the reason why people is unfortunate considered empathy? Or do I also have to actually feel bad for them as in emotionally?
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BACKSTORY below *only read if interested otherwise just the answer is fine
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So basically in the recent years I feel like I am losing confident in whether I am really an emphatic person or I am just losing it.
Why only recently? Because in the recent years I decided to accept the hatred instead of trying to be the "good person/student/friend/etc.” I have always ran away thinking that I can't hate people no matter what harm was done to me and was forcing myself to be some kind of saint.
Quite a few sad and terrible things have happen to the people around me however I don´t see myself reacting the same way. I understand the theory or concept (as a textbook) of why people is sad and why should I too, but that’s it I don´t feel my hear "break" for it.
Once I started thinking of it, many memories came to mind making me less confident (I don´t have a memory of truly crying or feel bad for someone, only have ever done it out of manners)
some people are more empathetic than others. you don’t have to force yourself to feel something and feel bad when you don’t. when someone tells me bad news, i usually sympathize with them. i understand why their situation is bad and i understand why they’re feeling bad. i try to comfort them.
empathy, on the other hand, is hard for me to fee......
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10 12,2020
I'm not sure I think understanding the situation is considered as sympathy not empathy. Empathy is feeling what the other is feeling.
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10 12,2020
I doubt it was empathy because feeling sad for them is more sympathy. Feeling bad WITH them is empathy. Empathy is putting yourself in their shoes and feeling what they feel in whatever situation.
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10 12,2020
EVERYONE THANK YOU FOR YOUR ANSWERS.
Some may have thought that I may have confused it with symphathy but I did really mean emphathy, I even researched the difference just in case.
From what the internet says emphathy is mainly for situations where you can relate to since similar or same experriences have happen to you, there is my point here. ......
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11 12,2020
