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"Empath" means "self-obsessed woo-accredited fool" ...

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SuziQuatrosFatNan · 19/04/2021 12:25

... doesn't it?

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Sssloou · 22/04/2021 15:31

@DeepThinkingGirl - that's very generous of you. I am glad you this has been insightful for you. This is a great set short videos which is helpful to understand cPTSD;

www.youtube.com/channel/UCCZlDCbFTqHkzV_rUP4V5bg

IbrahimaRedTwo · 22/04/2021 15:50

A real empath isn’t a narcissist

a real empath does not exist. Unless you mean any average human being.

Incognitool · 22/04/2021 15:54

@IbrahimaRedTwo

A real empath isn’t a narcissist

a real empath does not exist. Unless you mean any average human being.

Yes, this is like people on 'woo' threads talking about the 'real' pyschics/clairvoyants/fortunetellers, as distinct from the 'fraudulent' or deluded ones.
InsanityOf2020 · 22/04/2021 16:15

There's a difference between an empath and a narcissistic twotwobble who thinks they are one and will invest every waking momen lauding that over everyone they meet and thus alienating themselves from mankind.

Just saying

IbrahimaRedTwo · 22/04/2021 16:42

There's a difference between an empath and a narcissistic twotwobble who thinks they are one and will invest every waking momen lauding that over everyone they meet and thus alienating themselves from mankind

The main difference being an empath isn't a thing that exists.

squishee · 22/04/2021 18:10

Anyone who thinks H. G. Tudor has deemed Megan Markle a narcissist based on a single interview has not watched enough of his videos. I find them excellent

DeepThinkingGirl · 22/04/2021 19:04

Come on, this has to turn about Meghan Markle now!

Anon778833 · 22/04/2021 20:26

@IbrahimaRedTwo

Yes, you are correct. I think this ‘empathy’ term must have been coined by psychics who are never going to tell someone who paid them £70 that they’re an average human being. No, no - they’re a ‘light working’ empath. Sounds more worth the money 🤣🤣🤣

DeepThinkingGirl · 03/05/2021 23:03

I stumbled across a thread with empaths sending lights across to each other for healing energy... sounded like it’s a religious type of empaths..

I guess I now understand what the thread title was about. But that’s not the “empath” term I’ve come across over the internet and many pp on here we’re referring to the generic term tbh

notagainsurely · 04/05/2021 03:29

Yeah, it’s someone who makes other people feelings all about themselves. And then moans about how exhausting it is for them...

Former friend did this repeatedly. Final straw was that she did the whole "I'm an empath, I can FEEL what you're feeling and SENSE what you are thinking, and while she said this, she was sat next to me as I was having chemotherapy (had invited herself) and I was really upset about the cancer spreading: she then told me I had to be more positive, like her, because my negativity was affecting her AS AN EMPATH and it was EXHAUSTING for her and she had to put herself first.

The nurse who heard told me afterwards that my friend was no friend at all and should be ashamed of herself. This was not the first time 'friend' had acted horribly, I had long been thinking that she was actually a covert narcissist and was wondering when she would turn on me like she had so many others.

Same Friend was then told I had a scan to see if the cancer was back. And was asked if she could hold my hand as I was really frightened. Her reaction was to completely ghost me for two months; literally she crossed the road if she saw me coming and walked off and slammed the door in my face when she collected her child from a party where I was doing the same.

After two months of leaving me to get on with the cancer treatment, this self professed empath then got back in contact to express that she was sad as an empath that we hadn't spoken for two months, and that she had no idea why and asked if she had something wrong. And declared her innocence to everyone. Fortunately she had been seen and heard behaving appallingly by more than just me. She still kept claiming she was an empath though.

I then found out that many psychologists who hear a patient express themselves as an empath will actually be a covert narcissistic...two sides of the same coin, it is believed.

Am so glad she is a former friend.

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