Comments on: We Feel Your Pain: Extreme Empaths

By: Elephant's Child

Elephant's Child — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:16:43 +0000

I have the same problem with heights & falling.
If I see someone on the TV standing on a cliff, I have to grab the settee !

By: kineta

kineta — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:06:32 +0000

Wow, I definitely have this in a mild form. I’m so emotionally connected to people, fictional characters, complete strangers.

Can’t watch horror movies, let alone CSI. I writhe at the sound of breaking bones in particular.

The worst are hospitals- from the moment I walk through the doorway my skin becomes extra-sensitive, I cringe when I see drips and kidney bowls, the beds make me imagine the hundreds of patients lying there in pain, dying there.

Luckily I didn”t become a forensic pathologist like my dad (I’m an accountant- suits me fine)

By: Lady Claire

Lady Claire — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:16:51 +0000

I do have this habit of watching a film or something and start to feel the anguish or pain a particular character is feeling at the same time, sort of like it’s happening to me. Is that the same thing? Or am I someone who just gets a little too involved in what I’m watching perhaps? And as for horror films, no way!

LC x

By: spiderabc1

spiderabc1 — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:06:35 +0000

At a conference yesterday and one lady was mirroring the other for yonks. Looked a bit strange but I couldn’t tell if both were aware.

By: Julian Maytum

Julian Maytum — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:02:03 +0000

And the opposite being psychopathy (think con-man). Superficial, charming and glib (cough cough)

By: roz

roz — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:06:49 +0000

i had a dr like this. believe it or not, it was very annoying!

By: Diane brown

Diane brown — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:10:14 +0000

Certainly don’t feel their pain on a physical level but if someone tells me a story that is sad and they start to cry (even if I don’t know them very well) I have been known to cry myself…… Sensitive soul really

By: Jess xxx

Jess xxx — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:44:57 +0000

Echopraxia can get VERY annoying. I particularly start doing it if I’m having a really serious conversation with someone, and I’ll suddenly find myself copying their facial expressions, nodding, or even blinking at the same time as them (Very embarassing if you start copying someone’s limp, which I did once.) Didn’t realise it had a name until I saw it on QI a few months ago. You can learn anything on QI…