Are you familiar with the term "empathy"? In simple terms, this is the ability not only to empathize with a person, but to be sensitive to the energy of others, to experience their emotions with them, passing everything through oneself. Empaths have this innate ability, and they are sometimes extremely sensitive.
Empaths are great listeners, they are natural and more spiritual. But no one usually thinks about the other side of empathy. Is it good for a person with such abilities?
The gift of empathy leads to the fact that a person constantly feels "survived", exhausted, depressed, lost and sad after interacting with others. And this should be understood by everyone who has to communicate with empaths.
Why is it hard for empaths?
They have an innate sensitivity
This is why empaths have constant mood swings. This is not always clear to others, and even loved ones are sometimes ready to run away from them, wherever they look. Some empaths are so affected by their moods that sometimes they don't even remember that they were overly saddened by something. It is difficult for them to control and restrain themselves, it is above themselves. So even the closest people flee from the empaths, and only after a while they begin to understand that they are left alone, while they sincerely do not understand why this happened.
The point is that all of this negatively affects the emotional health and self-esteem of the empath. The person himself, who is inherent in empathy, will never abandon the one who needs help in trouble. And, if he himself has to leave a person, then he then experiences an all-consuming feeling of guilt for this. An empath never, or at least very rarely, shows his true emotions, which came due to the fact that he was ignored, humiliated, used, offended. He is a pillow for tears, but he himself never says that he is bad.
Empaths visualize their dreams and dreams too much
Empaths have very vivid and believable dreams that even seem to them to be a part of life. They analyze for a long time everything that they dreamed, trying to somehow compare it with reality. Empaths feel that their dreams reflect their current emotional state. If someone else does not attach importance to dreams at all, considering them a strange confusion of some images and events, then empaths take each of their dreams very seriously.
In addition, empaths often tend to indulge in dreams, detailing them meticulously down to the smallest detail. It already seems to them that all this is happening in reality. Therefore, if the empath is not interested in the present moment in life, he tries to hide from the world in his own rainbow dreams. The same goes for the empath's ideas and thoughts. If he is hooked on something, he will spend a lot of time analyzing it. From the outside, such a person seems somehow detached, airy and generally narrow-minded. But this is not so, it is just that the empath seems to be hiding from the cruel reality and putting his thoughts in order precisely in his dreams.
Is it worth building a relationship with an empath?
Every person wants to love and be loved, and empaths also dream about it. The only problem is that even if they fall in love, they cannot open up one hundred percent. It is extremely dangerous for the empath himself to give his heart to another person without hesitation, otherwise his passion will become all-consuming, and he will not be able to cope with it. Once realizing this and burnt in love, the empath henceforth hides part of his heart from the world of other people.
When your friend or loved one is an empath, it's good on the one hand. You can always count on his help, support, advice. He listens to you, and understands every word, he seems to merge with your feelings and emotions. But for the empaths themselves, it is extremely dangerous to love sincerely and with all their hearts, because they lose themselves and are very sensitive to every word and action of their partner. In addition, empaths absorb so much negativity from others that they almost become sick from all the information received. They are prone to mood swings, which are sometimes incomprehensible to their loved ones.
Empaths need to be protected and treated with extreme care!
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