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Being An Empath— 4 Ways I Protect Myself
If I don’t shield myself, I won’t survive for long
No. This is not humblebragging. Trust me, there’s nothing cool about sitting with my friends, my big beardy tough Vikings, drinking Mjød, punching rock, and watching sports when I suddenly start to go cry because of how much it must have meant for the goalie to do that save.
What's an empath?
I have been Googling like crazy to find a good definition, and the best I found was:
Empaths
: are highly sensitive individuals, who have a keen ability to sense what people around them are thinking and feeling.
Empathy:
: the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner
My definition
: A mushy(in every positive sense) person with an enhanced ability to adopt other people's feelings.