#empathy drained

[revenant-coining]

Empathy Stances

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requested by @ricocheting

Empathy Stances:

Empathy-Ambivalent: one has mixed or complicated feelings regarding interactions that involve empathy.

Empathy-Averse: one feels repulsed by the idea of personally engaging in interactions that involve empathy.

Empathy-Drained: one feels repulsed by interactions the involve empathy due to trauma or exhaustion.

Empathy-Favorable: one feels favorable towards or enjoys interactions that involve empathy.

Empathy-Indifferent: one has no strong feelings regarding interactions that involve empathy.

Empathy-Oscillating: one’s feelings towards interactions that involve empathy change or fluctuate over time.

Empathy-Repulsed: one feels repulsed by interactions that involve empathy.

@radiomogai , @oneofmanyarchives

[dynamicity-keysmash]

Just found out that one of my favorite YouTubers said on Twitter that the claim that Jews "distort the Holocaust" for nefarious purposes is "obviously" not antisemitic. God it's just so painful being Jewish lately. I can't even have comfort content creators anymore.

[blabbershere]

Somedays, I feel that I belong nowhere, to no one. I pour myself out, watering others until I'm drained. Yet, I'm just a stranger belonging only to myself.

— Ruth Winters // Belonging

[txicrose]

Sometimes I can't feel or care about anything or anyone. Like even with the people I love, I can just lose any ability to care or feel anything about/towards/with them. I feel like a bad person. Even though I want to be able to feel and care and help logically, I just can't feel. I try to, and I try to do the right thing because I care about them, but I still feel like a bad person.

[sallymew4]

the not caring and “it’s not a big deal” epidemics are upon us. flee to the bunkers

[littlest-bugz]

I really not jiving with the permanent wall between me and literally anyone I interact with!

[cynicalcharisma]

just had a tech dudebro explain to me (a math/stats/econ kid) how arts/humanities/commerce is gonna be irrelevant soon. i was like yes i would love to see how science and tech kills this planet including his apologetic ass for ignoring all socioeconomic and cultural conditions which drive all forms of life. just why isn't this obvious to see that without understanding social realities and scope of destruction, science will fucking kill you??? it needs to be guided by empathy ffs

[malakaie]

steeples fingers

not to be cringe on main but 2025 is going to be the year of aggressively making time for the things that matter to me and spending less time on the things that don't

[opens-up-4-nobody]

Not liking Naruto as a character is a big red flag for me tbh

[neopronouns]

an empathy-drained hyperempathetic flag for myself!

flag id: a flag with 5 stripes, with the second and fourth being half the size of the rest. in order, they are faded turquoise, very light blue, bright red-pink, very light blue, and orange. in the center of the flag, a bit taller than the middle 3 stripes, is a green circle with a thick, very dark dull indigo outline and a very dark dull indigo spiral within it. end id.

banner id: a 1500x150 teal banner with the words ‘please read my dni before interacting’ in large white text in the center. end id.

dni link

[mynameisakissi]

[twilight-good-yall-dumb]

is the inexplicable need to put my own characters through incredibly distressing situations and intense emotional turmoil a red flag? be honest.

[grungepoetica]

Treat Transfems Like the Normal People They Are Challenge (Near-Impossible, Any % Speedrun)

[maepersonal]

yeah haha there's definitely something completely fucked with my emotions.

I can't cry for myself or the people I'd do anything for, but a character in a book just lost their significant other and I'm sobbing. actual, literal choking sobs. chest hurts, feel like someone ripped my rib cage out sobs.

what the fuck???

[cosmicdreamgrl]

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[thasorns-moved]

The dentist who is “specialized” on anxiety patients wasn’t even specialized. While I cried and cried he had a small talk with his colleagues and in the end he just said ‘if you can endure this without getting anesthesia, you don’t need anesthesia for the rest of your teeth’ and I’m just so angry are you even aware that I had a panic/anxiety attack that I’m gasping for air while I’m physically shaking and crying and the audacity to say things like this TO A FREAKING PATIENT who has such a fear of dentists… is beyond.