{"id":22063,"date":"2026-03-11T12:20:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T12:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/uncategorized\/is-it-possible-to-be-too-empathetic\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:13:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:13:27","slug":"is-it-possible-to-be-too-empathetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/positive-living\/health-and-wellness\/life-advice\/is-it-possible-to-be-too-empathetic\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Possible to Be Too Empathetic?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Empathy\u2014the ability to see things from another\u2019s perspective and actually imagine and <em>feel <\/em>what others might be going through. What could be wrong with that?<\/p>\n<p>While empathy is an unquestionable part of walking a positive path through life, enabling us to be kind to others and foster lasting relationships, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cornellpress.cornell.edu\/book\/?GCOI=80140104182850&amp;fa=author&amp;person_id=6276#content\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">professor of humanities Fritz Breithaupt<\/a> says empathy also has \u201ca dark side.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Empathy is a riddle,\u201d Breithaupt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2019\/04\/12\/712682406\/does-empathy-have-a-dark-side\">recently told NPR<\/a>. While it can help us cultivate positive and kind habits, it can also motivate dysfunctional relationship patterns and self-serving behaviors.<\/p>\n<p>On the positive side, Breithaupt describes the benefits of healthy empathy. He says, \u201cBeings with empathy understand that there are all these different minds around [that] have different experiences and different feelings. They can participate in them. Someone with empathy lives more than one life. Of course, sometimes that means that you have to carry the suffering of others, but in many cases their joy becomes your joy. So it&#8217;s a richer, much more complex life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But he also refers to a more toxic form of empathy called \u201cvampiristic empathy,\u201d in which in the process of feeling on behalf of others, an empathetic person actually steers the relationship in a self-serving direction, in which an empathetic person feels more proud of their own heroics than compassionate for the experiences of others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHumans are very quick to take sides,\u201d Breithaupt said. \u201cAnd when you take one side, you take the perspective of that side. You can see the painful parts of that perspective and empathize with them, and that empathy can fuel seeing the other side as darker and darker or more dubious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This shouldn\u2019t lead us to abandon the <a href=\"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/positive-living\/the-growing-need-for-empathy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pursuit of healthy empathy<\/a>. Instead, understanding the full complexity of the emotion can help us to check in with ourselves to make sure our efforts are truly compassionate and directed at the people in our lives who we are deserving of our empathy. <\/p>\n<p>As Breithaupt puts it, \u201cWe can learn to use empathy in a somewhat controlled way. 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