We have all come across the mention of Empath or of people who even themselves claim to be Empaths.
I am here to tell you, unfortunately, that there is no such thing as an Empath as such, for this is not a clinical category, but cannot even be prop…
We have all come across the mention of Empath or of people who even themselves claim to be Empaths.
I am here to tell you, unfortunately, that there is no such thing as an Empath as such, for this is not a clinical category, but cannot even be properly measured, so that if it did exist, we cannot measure it in any meaningful way, no such tests exist, those that exist are not only unreliable but entirely outside the scientific professions existing mostly in the realms of spiritism and the new age where these categories even go into psychic abilities and so forth.
Instead, what we are recognising when an Empath is being described is in fact aspects of personality that are on the higher percentiles of the traits that are common to people who typically identify themselves in such a manner or whom at least resonate to a degree with the descriptions. The traits most common to this category of person is high scores in Agreeableness and Neuroticism.
In this video I discuss where in the Big 5 traits the aspects of an Empath are in fact expressed, plus, I venture to explain the various debilitating experiences which are commonly associated with those who describe themselves in this manner, such as being easily traumatised, or suffering depression and so forth and we will see that, depending on the severity, that those who are labelled as Empaths are either merely in the high percentiles of certain personality traits, or are both high on those traits with the addition of personality disorders born out of some form of past trauma experiences which imposes upon such people the sense of hypervigilance, amongst other things, which ultimately are the manifestation of coping mechanisms.
Big 5 Personality Trait test. Nota Bene, you do the test first, then upon completion you select whether you receive the free version or the full paid version.
https://www.123test.com/big-five-personality-theory/
The Top 10 Traits of an Empath
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/emotional-freedom/201602/10-traits-empathic-people-share
