You could be an empath. Most people experience varying degrees of empathy – aka, the ability to share and understand the emotions of the people around you – but for empaths, this skill is on a ...

There are key differences between being an empathic person and identifying as an ‘empath’. Psychotherapist and author Lucy Fry explains how to tell these traits apart. I used to think I was ...

It’s common for empaths to deal with chronic fatigue and anxiety, too. “That can be connected to carrying the emotional weight of others,” Muldrew said. This chronic fatigue and anxiety can get to the ...

Created with Sketch. Viewing violent news events on television or social media can also cause some people with high levels of empathy to experience symptoms similar to those of secondary trauma.

While the concepts of cognitive and emotional empathy are not new, Uzefovsky found that they failed to explain symptoms as effectively as an imbalance in the two did. Her findings about ...