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The Overwhelmed Brain

Can an unempathetic person develop empathy?

The Overwhelmed Brain

Paul Colaianni

Therapy, Emotions, Sad, Health, Mental Health, Personal, Abuse, Anxiety, Relationships, Health & Fitness, Psychological, Self-improvement, Mind, Stress, Emotional, Anger, Philosophy, Divorce, Psychology, Addiction, Happiness, Happy, Development, Thinking, Success, Education, Frustration, Sadness, Manipulation, Resistance, Brain, Depression, Overwhelm, Mental

4.52K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Relationships require empathy. Without it, you will have an imbalance that will not only feel lonely, but also emotionally toxic.

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0:00.0

These are my personal opinions.

0:02.0

Always seek a professional when you're making choices about your mental health and well-being.

0:05.0

To the person who wrote to me, I'm going to get right into this, to the person who wrote to me and asked,

0:17.0

is it possible he's changed? Maybe he's matured, maybe he got wiser, and he grew out of this narcissistic personality disorder.

0:29.0

I have bad news if he was diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder,

0:36.0

that it's very unlikely he grew out of that.

0:38.9

Because it's a personality disorder and

0:42.4

according to people that know more than me about this, they don't grow out of it.

0:48.4

You don't grow out of a disorder like that.

0:50.5

Now, I have my own personal opinions on that I do think that if you practice the empathy

0:57.3

muscle if you work on it that it's possible that one could start

1:02.4

developing empathy, but it's very difficult for people without it.

1:08.0

If there's no empathy there, it's very difficult to find it to even start it because it's just not there.

1:15.6

So there's really nothing to develop.

1:17.8

So that's an amateur opinion.

1:19.8

Do not listen to me.

1:21.4

Look that up. Look up narcissistic personality disorder and look up how some people

1:28.3

seem to be not born with it. I mean, you've even heard of young teenagers doing things that a

1:36.0

sociopath would do and then they interrogate them because they did something

1:40.6

awful and they just seem to have no care about what they did. They don't care

1:46.7

about the people they've hurt, about what they've said or what they did. They just don't care about the consequences of their behavior.

1:55.7

If you've ever watched those interrogations where the police interrogate a suspect, I've seen ones

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