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“Toxic empathy,” “hyper-empathy,” “empathy overload” — none of these are clinical terms, yet all describe the same lived reality:

an excessive identification with someone else’s emotional experience.

A healthy empath can feel with someone while staying grounded in their own centre.
A toxic empath loses that centre completely.

Instead of witnessing someone’s pain, they absorb it… mirror it… carry it — sometimes more intensely than the person who’s actually suffering.

Imagine a friend whose dog is dying:
• A healthy empath offers compassion, presence, a warm shoulder — and continues their day.
• A toxic empath spirals: unable to focus at work, overwhelmed, cancelling plans, emotionally flooded by feelings that aren’t even theirs.

This isn’t compassion — it’s emotional contagion.
This is where empathy becomes enmeshment, where caring slips into self-erasure.

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