Empathy

[broken brain]

@Ayesha I was wrong to assume Meadowsweet was referring to this site, so my response was based on that assumption. Sympathy and empathy are two different things, but I don't thing either make you weak for showing or wanting.

 

[Deleted member 19804]

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?)

Oh I so know what you mean. I can get so angry inside when I hear people complain about having to deal with annoying coworkers, or that they have a stomach ache, or that they got a bad grade for an important test. But maybe thats just normal and healthy human behaviour.
I guess if you've never experienced how bad things can be, it's easy to see things that are so futile to most of us here as the end of the world.

 

[ptsdsolution]

It's like you are holding it all together even when you don't realize it and if someone comes close to you and forms a connection, even out of empathy, you can start to come apart or just distance yourself to stop yourself from falling to pieces. Some people then mayy think you are aloof or distant but its just a way of protecting what is already vulnerable.