Meadowsweet
MyPTSD Pro
I seem to experience three reactions to empathy.
Sometimes, I am touched and full of empathy and the need to say something useful, to feel or take away the persons pain. (A positive response?)
Sometimes, I read something that is almost too close to what I feel (or perhaps too much for me to empathise with) and I skip to something else and move on quickly like it doesn't matter. But it does matter, it's just that I can't handle it. (A neutral response?)
Sometimes, I feel no empathy at all, and perplexed that people with so little to complain about complain the loudest and have sympathisers flock around them like they're the most hard done by people in the world. I feel hurt and feel all the more that people don't really care about others, and that they just react to whoever shouts the loudest. (A negative response?)
I just wondered how others react to feeling empathy, and how others have handled it? What's right and wrong about how we feel about other people's emotional experiences?
Sometimes, I am touched and full of empathy and the need to say something useful, to feel or take away the persons pain. (A positive response?)
Sometimes, I read something that is almost too close to what I feel (or perhaps too much for me to empathise with) and I skip to something else and move on quickly like it doesn't matter. But it does matter, it's just that I can't handle it. (A neutral response?)
Sometimes, I feel no empathy at all, and perplexed that people with so little to complain about complain the loudest and have sympathisers flock around them like they're the most hard done by people in the world. I feel hurt and feel all the more that people don't really care about others, and that they just react to whoever shouts the loudest. (A negative response?)
I just wondered how others react to feeling empathy, and how others have handled it? What's right and wrong about how we feel about other people's emotional experiences?