Can an unempathetic person develop empathy?
The Overwhelmed Brain
Paul Colaianni: Emotional Abuse and Relationship Expert
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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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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