Study: Social Anxiety is Associated with Being an Empath
Hello everyone,
I came acrossthis really interesting article and wanted to share it with you guys. If you want to skip the reading here is the abstract
"Astudypublished in 2011 showed thatindividuals with social phobias are hypersensitive to other people?s states of mind.It means that they can easily perceive and accurately distinguish feelings of those around them, which basically makes themempaths, or people capable of feeling and sharing the emotions of others."
Source: Here
Do you guys agree or disagree?
I really enjoyed this. I myself am an empath and it's a curse and blessing all wrapped in one. But the good outweighs the bad.
I think it's natural to be a little bit anxious around people as an empath. I mean, if you can essentially care about someone you don't really know to the point of feeling their pain, or happiness... It'd be kind of easy to be worried that any given person is going to rub off on you. I like the article, I think it raises a lot of valid points. Thank you for sharing!
I agree @conscientiousWheel1989 and @Cadence.
I think training in being more mindful would help in both cases of beign an empath or/and actually having phobias such as "fear of being judged" by helping onetake on less of other's emotions upon one's self and getting a more accurate picture others emotions.
However this requires a conscious effort, training and practice as well as support.
This is sort of related but I once read a study about how neglected children and children of divorced parents tend to be more spatially aware of where people are.