Why do I feel no empathy or pity, just anger and jealousy!?
Whenever I see someone I know going through a rough time I don't feel empathy fir them even for my own family members. Or if someone I know or work with is happy I feel this anger deep inside, the closest thing I can relate it to is jealousy but I should be happy for them! One time my brother tackled me and broke a three hundred dollar watch I was going to give to my father, he lady when I yelled at him about it. So at night I took the caps off the tire valves on his car. By morning his tires where flat and to wrap it up I used his phone and sent a text to his girlfriend, they where t getting along for a while and I knew that. I won't say what I texted but when she responded , she told my brother to stay away from her! Three days ago my brother had an accident while in the garage at our house, he fell about twelve feet to the concrete floor and he couldn't move. He begged me to call an ambulance, then he begged me to drive him to the hospital instead. All I did was look at him for a minute then I grabbed my car keys and before I left I said"drive yourself to the hospital tough guy!" My car was the only one there and my parents didn't get home for twenty minutes!
Can sociopaths feel jealousy?
Yeah, sociopathy is pretty much just not understanding empathy and human concepts of acceptable and unacceptable behavior. Because of this they are wrongly thought of as narcissists and careless. In truth they just don't understand.
How can I increase my empathy if I don't feel it?
Great question. Empathy is definitely a learned ability so first understand that it’s possible. Maybe you could question if you really don’t have any empathy - have you really never had any for any living thing? Did you ever feel any sense of understanding that a family member or friend was happy or sad? If not, what about a small cute animal?Maybe there is something blocking your empathy, such as a feeling of anger, frustration, jealousy or resentment?You can practice empathy by recognizing and naming your emotions and the emotions of others. You can ‘fake it til you make it’ and do things with others to act with pretend empathy, even if it feels weird or unnatural. Every time you recognize an emotion or act with empathy, even if it’s pretend, congratulate yourself on the great job you are doing just for even trying. Getting from 0% empathy to 1% empathy is a huge step, one that’s worthy of celebrating. See if you can notice the difference.You can do it! Good luck!
If remorse, empathy, guilt, fear, self-pity and love are absent, are there any emotions that psychopaths do experience, such as anger, jealousy, joy, trust or anticipation?
Technically, psychopaths are only lacking empathy and remorse. So they could have all the other emotions. Many have said they don’t experience fear, but that’s inaccurate. They feel fear, they don’t accurately assess danger.Psychopaths Feel Fear But See No DangerSo they experience fear. The diagnostic criteria includes hostility, anger and aggression. So they experience that, and resentment, jealousy, etc.I think they live for anticipation, like the rest of us.Trust? They are usually very distrustful as they expect others to lie and manipulate them, like they do other people. (Deception, exploitation and manipulation are part of the diagnostic criteria.)I do not believe they experience joy as we do because of the lack of empathy. Many psychopaths move from experience to experience, living on the anticipation, but never experiencing the joy. So they walk around feeling empty and unfulfilled, unsatiated.
Do You Have Sympathy/Empathy For a Serial Killer?
Do you think that they couldn't help what they did, or do you think their life circumstances (i.e. troubled childhood) caused them to do something that they wouldn't have done if their life circumstances had been different?
Does a psychopath feel sympathy for animals?
Would an anti-social individual (a psychopath or a sociopath, especially one who is inclined to commit acts of violence or murder aimed towards other people without feeling remorse or guilt) be inclined to feel a sympathy with animals. Would a psychopath or a sociopath feel any sort of a connection to an animal that he/she wouldn't for a human, or would spare an animal during a murderous rage when he/she would normally would not treat a human as such? Or is it that a psychopath/sociopath with murderous tendencies would kill an animal just as readily as they would kill a human?
Sympathy replaced with anger? Hate affection?
The last two or three years I've been struggling with depression. And for the last two or three years I've been suffering from these... things. I feel anger in the place of sympathy. When my best friend's grandma died, I felt angry. When my mom's sister was sentenced to prison, I felt angry, instead of sad for my mom. I can't be around people when the cry, because I get angry. It's just a feeling, that I don't understand. I have no idea why I feel this way, and I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem, how to deal with it, and why I feel like this. ALSO. For the last two or three years, I've absolutely hated affection. It makes me feel uncomfortable and angry. If someone tells me they love me, I get really, really mad. I cringe at hugs, any of it. If someone tells me how much they care for me, I become furious. I can't tell people I love them. All of this is really interfering with my life. Help!
I feel sympathy for murderers and serial killers?
I'll tell you a true story. I once worked as a counselor for troubled youths and adults. Some of them had legitimate pain and anger that drove them to commit all sorts of heinous acts. Like you, I feel sorry for them, the victims, and the victims' families. BUT ... There was a subsection of clients who were sociopathic, meaning they lacked a capacity to feel for others' pain (and I'm not talking about you: you feel for both parties). Serial killers (the people whom you think you sympathize with), are sociopathic. You could tell the ones who were sociopathic because when we were in a group and someone talked about his or her abusive past, the sociopathic clients would smirk or smile when listening to the ugly details. They would nearly be laughing when another client in the group broke down and cried. In essence, the sociopathic clients got off on the pain of others; it was a sport and a high for them. The more pain they witnessed, the more ecstatic they were. Again, that is the stuff serial killers are made of. They often came from seemingly decent and stable homes. And some of them were imprisoned later for savagely torturing and raping other humans, often slowly, to savor their victims' pain. ... And did you know that they often keep the victims' clothes and body parts to j**k off to later, as they savor the memory of the crime they committed? So I don't feel sorry for some of the people that murder (the sociopaths, anyway). It's like a lamb feeling sorry for a wild mountain lion who would still be hunting lambs if it weren't for the fact that it is safely behind bars.