if I get it right, Empathy is when you can recognize what the other person is feeling, AND you also take on some of those emotions, like, if someone is sad, you become said, when someone is happy, you become happy, etc.
Compassion is specifically for when you learn someone is in a negative situation, and you feel concern and sadness about the fact itself.
Thus, if someone has low empathy, they don’t just have a harder time recognizing what the other feels, but also have a harder time taking on those emotions, is that correct?
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it’s just the difference between mental and emotional…lots of people have compassion (a hurt when they know others are hurting, even when they have no experience in what the other person is going through) —- empathy is being able to understand what they are going through, they can still have compassion (or not) but they know on a mental level what the person is enduring
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