Eli5: what is the difference between sympathy and empathy?

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People have tried explaining it to me before and I never really understood the difference. I’m hoping a simple explanation will help.

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Sympathy is when you feel bad for a person who is suffering. Empathy is when your are experiencing pain simultaneously as someone else who is going through something, that you too have dealt with, and now are suffering and experiencing it with them collectively/concurrently

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