An Empath’s Guide to Understanding Your Emotions, What It Means for Extra-Sensory Abilities & How to Know If Your Energy is Being Drained by a Dark Empath

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Mayim Bialik

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Wellness, Health & Fitness, Comedy, Thebigbangtheory, Spirituality, Selfimprovement, Mentalhealth

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🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Are you an empath? Are you too in tune with other people’s emotions? Mayim and Jonathan take the “Are You an Empath?” quiz and reveal how to know if you're truly an empath. They break down the 3 types of empathy (emotional, cognitive, and compassionate) and explain how to spot the telltale signs of being an empath, from absorbing other people’s energy to struggling with emotional boundaries. Whether you're wondering how to know if you're an empath or trying to stop feeling everything all the time, this episode explores the science, psychology, and real-life challenges of being an empath—and how to manage it without burning out.

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0:00.0	Do you have strong intuition? Do you experience deep emotions? Do you often feel pulled to deep emotional
0:07.7	reactions to other people's experiences?
0:11.6	A hundred and sixty million people have this unique characteristic.
0:17.4	You may be an empath. A lot of empaths will have this set of extrasensory abilities.
0:23.6	Some people are like, I see energy, I read energy, I feel energy.
0:27.6	It's like, what? How am I feeling something that someone else is?
0:32.6	Is your life being controlled by a dark empath?
0:36.6	A dark empath is someone who uses cognitive empathy for personal gain.
0:42.8	They can be vindictive, manipulative.
0:46.2	They often use love bombing, gaslighting, ghosting.
0:50.1	That person that you're describing is a very dangerous person.
0:53.3	You think that there's a high level of understanding there, but really what's happening is...
0:58.0	Hi, I'm I'm Bielic. I'm Jonathan Cohen.
1:04.5	Welcome to our breakdown. Today we're going to be talking about something that affects hundreds of millions of people.
1:10.5	160 million people have this very specific, unique characteristic.
1:17.7	And if you have it and are interacting with people who don't have it, there can be a real
1:24.0	significant divide.
1:25.2	Are you the person that everyone confides in?
1:28.3	Do you regularly feel burnt out?
1:33.3	Do you regularly experience emotions and you don't know why?
1:39.3	Do you often feel pulled to deep emotional reactions to other people's experiences. If so, you might be
1:49.6	exactly the person that we're talking about. You may be an empath. And you may have heard,
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