Off My Chest
RULES:
I am looking for mods!
1. The "good" part of our community means we are pro-empathy and anti-harassment. However, we don't intend to make this a "safe space" where everyone has to be a saint. Sh*t happens, and life is messy. That's why we get things off our chests.
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Empathy fatigue.
I'm an obnoxiously empathetic person. I spent a week in a "mental health facility" last year, and it was an emotional nightmare. I hate seeing people in pain, so being involuntarily admitted into a dumpster filled with people in the worst pain, and at the lowest point of their lives...
Not amusing to say the least.
By day four, I didn't even look up when someone screamed screamed, or i heard the "thud" of someone succumbing to the "let's try you at this dose" reactions of the drugs.
Sometimes you just don't have the empathy to deal with these people, and the older I get, the less empathy and more 'hatred' I have for people that just constantly hurt themselves. Their actions are their own, I'm done trying to empathize or 'understand' their perspective. /rant