Being empathic means that we can sense what other people are feeling, and understand them as if we are having them ourselves. However, I think to understand empathy we have to first differentiate it from sympathy. Now sympathy is when we feel bad for what someone else is going through, but empathy is when we experience it with them, like we know how it feels. An article from the university of berkeley explained this difference by stating that sympathy is feeling for someone while empathy is feeling with someone. I think sympathy is a more external way to support someone going through something tough, while empathy puts you right there with them. Now both of these traits make us better, more compassionate people, because they allow us to support and understand those we are in contact with. However, as someone who can at times feel other people’s pain deep in my gut and become personally upset by it, there are limits to how much empathy is healthy.

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