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 Posted - 09/23/2007 : 13:16:55
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Dear Members,
Research has shown that lack of empathy is often a problem in both schizophrenia and depression.
Lack of Empathy is defined as:
Inability to understand and predict other peoples' behavior; insensitivity to others. Could you please tell our community if lack of empathy was part of your schizophrenia, and what made this better or worse.
Your comments will greatly help others facing these same problems.
Phil Long M.D.
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| firebird
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Posted - 09/23/2007 : 16:02:53
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| Are you kidding. I am often too sensitive to the feelings of others. I hate to see someone in pain or distress and I am not afraid to do something about it when I do. I can be a bit of a sucker for sob stories though sometimes. |
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| peewee
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Posted - 09/27/2007 : 02:11:42
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Before I developed schizophrenia I had alot of empathy for others - in fact I was even trained in my work to have doses of empathy for the client's I was speaking to. When I became ill I lost it, I had no sense of reality so trying to understand someone elses reality was impossible. However I became incredibly sensitive to any information that was "not for sensitive people" and couldn't handle hearing other people's experiences - it was too much for my mind to handle because of the symptoms I was experiencing - it would make me very ill and I would run to the toilets or to a room and hold my head and just cry. I was not able to offer any support. Now that I'm on medication I have grown cold and to be honest couldn't care less about giving empathy to others or though I still remain a kind person but that is because I have seen terrible things in my mind from delusions and hallucinations and what the persecutive voices said to me - in a sense I've become hard. The only way I can turn from that hardness is to learn to try and show more concern for others but in a genuine way. It's a new learning process for me. |
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| FinkPloyd
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Posted - 12/22/2007 : 02:03:30
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This is quite true for me, although I wouldnt admit it out loud. I often like seeing other people suffer, kind of like karmic retribution for all the times other people made me suffer.
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| Shawn6294
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Posted - 02/23/2008 : 12:01:38
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| Sometimes it's hard for someone to care about others when they feel like nobody cares about them. |
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| jane_m
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Posted - 02/23/2008 : 18:58:38
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| I have lost all empathy. I'm in pain both physically and mentally and it is hard to deal with other peoples problems when I can't even solve my own. When my relatives complain about something I tell them to get a therapist I can't be one for them. I don't have any answer. |
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| area24
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Posted - 04/26/2008 : 09:58:09
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Just the opposite with me. It still gets me into trouble
especially with good looking girls. My brain shuts off
and I'll watch myself get taken in by any stupid story
especially involving money.
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| Freestar
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Posted - 06/26/2008 : 03:06:58
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I know the question was directed at a person with sz but I can say from my experiences with my mother that unfortunately she seems unable to put herself in others shoes. Quiet often I am in the middle with her and my younger brother and I would ask her (as the mother and adult in the situation) to try to see where he is coming from, but she will refuse point blank and reiterate her own point again. Frustrating!
This topic has made me more aware that perhaps she does infact find it difficult to empatise, and may be she's not being selfish or stubborn as I had sometimes thought.
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| Mike412
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Posted - 11/15/2008 : 17:44:53
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| Well, the world certainly is fraught with emotional peril, war,famine,disease,wicked people...Do I really want to feel all that? No, but I can't help but feel sorry for a lot of people, it is a hard cruel world out there. I consider myself lucky to be where I'm at even though it's hard to feel lucky a lot of times with this mental illness I have. I hope I don't have to go through a lot of things I've seen a lot of people go through, I hope I live to real old age and can be reasonably physically healthy at least. |
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| warbird
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Do You Have Problems With Lack of Empathy?
