What does it mean when someone says no sympathy?
If you lack sympathy (a feeling of sadness on behalf of someone else), you’re unsympathetic: “I’m unsympathetic about her missing cashmere scarf, since I happen to know she has three more at home.” It can also mean “unappealing” or “unlikeable.” Darth Vader, up to a point, is a decidedly unsympathetic movie character.
What is a person that has no feelings?
Specialty. Psychiatry. Alexithymia is a personality trait characterized by the subclinical inability to identify and describe emotions experienced by one’s self. The core characteristic of alexithymia is marked dysfunction in emotional awareness, social attachment, and interpersonal relation.
What does it mean to have empathy but no sympathy?
Empathy means experiencing someone else’s feelings. It comes from the German Einfühlung, or ‘feeling into. ‘ It requires an emotional component of really feeling what the other person is feeling. Sympathy, on the other hand, means understanding someone else’s suffering.
Why do I feel sympathy and not empathy?
Sympathy often involves a lot of judgement. Empathy has none. Sympathy involves understanding from your own perspective. Empathy involves putting yourself in the other person’s shoes and understanding WHY they may have these particular feelings.
Why do I not like sympathy?
I don’t like sympathy because most of the times it amounts to just a string or two of hollow words, spoken merely out of social etiquette; they don’t mean a thing. An irritating thing, really, to which you can’t think of a retort, can’t say ‘fuck off’, because of – you guessed it – social etiquette.
How do I feel sympathy when my mind is blank?
When mind is blank, sympathy will arise of its own for the people suffering. You need not make any attempt towards it. Meditation will help you in this direction. Human feelings like sympathy, love, affection are very subjective and depend on personal experiences.
Why do I feel guilty for feeling sympathy for others?
You are feeling guilty because you are expected to feel sympathy for people who are suffering. Expectations whether your own or of others cause negative feelings (I call it unhappiness in general). So long as you are not the cause of suffering, feeling sympathy or not is your choice. Please feel free to be yourself.
How do you show sympathy for others?
Sympathy feeling is shown by some in words, tears or some body expressions, while some go non emotional outwardly but cry within their heart OR aome have no feelings at all Then there are some eho enjoy others’ hardship / sorrow / loss. Not knowing your exact reaction, one can comment or advise or suggest.