Yaret Hernandez
Aug 21 · 3 min read

Empathy is the ability to understand and share feelings with others, but is there a way to measure how much empathy you have for people? Is there such as thing as too much empathy?

I have been in an abusive and controlling relationship with empathy for as most of my life, but I have just recently started to notice.

I have always been empathetic , and as I grew older it was harder to not notice that everyone around me is struggling with something. Constantly…

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Yaret Hernandez

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