#actually empath

You gotta love how all those empath’s give people with ASPD and NPD the recovery advice of “just be better people”. Like yes hun, I’ll just “try harder” not like this is a condition often caused by childhood trauma and is largely a very long established and ingrained defense mechanism that kept me alive and as a result has created a strong foundation of my identity and personality and thus is a really complex and difficult thing to untangle.