How an Empath Escapes Their Childhood Wounds
The shadow labyrinth of Borderline Personality Disorder & the instinct to heal others
Those who were born without a silver spoon in their mouths will lick sharp knives until their own blood is the only truth they can speak.
People misuse the colloquial term “empath” a lot — some go so far as to disbelieve in our existence due to the loose usage of it, possibly because narcissists mask as their scapegoats and self identify as empaths when they don’t know what emotional empathy or a conscience even feels like.
People also love to demonize people with Borderline Personality Disorder — the true empaths — because those with narcissism also smear and project onto their scapegoats.
No matter how you slice it, the outcome is the same: those with a deep empathy are never seen in their full, complex humanity, and people often don’t understand where such an empathy comes from (though they are quick to use us in a crisis). We’re often dismissed as naive, overly sensitive, or simply crazy.
An overly sensitive empathy that doesn’t turn off for predators or abusive people is a trauma response.