My friend's dad is a psycologist and told her she was hyper empathetic. She told me this after i described myself...I didnt know it had a name. I just know it causes probs for me. How do I balance it out? Any of your own experiences?
2006-10-28 17:37:17 · 7 answers · asked by Al 2 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
Well I have not heard that term. Normally empathy is a good thing. It allows us to put ourselves in the other person's place and have some idea of how they might feel. This is a good trait for anyone in the helping professions. Hyper is, of course, on the high end, to the point of overdoing it. If you are that type of person you burn out fast in the helping professions. The client's pain becomes your pain and you can not distance yourself from it. Then you are ministering to them from your need and not theirs. This may be what he is talking about. I was taught very early on that I should always ask myself "whose need is it?" and if it is my need to be needed or my need to resolve something and not the others persons need, let it go. This is why a good therapist gets therapy themselves first.
2006-10-28 17:52:17 · answer #1 · answered by tonks_op 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-16 20:14:13 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-09-28 03:32:35 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To be empathetic means you are able to feel another's pain. To be hyper means you feel a level of pain greater than the person in pain (patently false and oft pretentious).
The problems in many a person life revolves around issues of 'unearned' unhappiness - or false unhappiness utilized to draw undue and selfish attention forth from others.
You are or you are not aware the feelings of others, there is no level of feeling established for knowing another's pain.
Which, if you need further explanation, means just another load of false BS jargon, and I don't mean a degree, to make one using the terminology feel more important.
2006-10-28 18:27:22 · answer #4 · answered by Jaime Cancio (Jim) 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hyper-empathetic, means that you take problems too personally, they affect you more then most and you can't function, because of the emotional closeness you feel to the person's problems.I would suggest taking a step back and only dealing with your problems for a while. Concentrate on you.
2006-10-28 17:45:42 · answer #5 · answered by Katherine C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-03-13 00:08:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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