just a small question, and no need to answer, but my psychologist recently informed me that I was a "superfeeler" and proceeded to explain to me what it was, and ect. anyway, i was wondering if a superfeeler and empath are the same, but just different words? - admin
Hello! Sorry for the late response! Thank you for the patience!
Honestly? It would depend on *how* you feel things!
“Superfeeler” - If I’m understanding this correctly, it’s like a level of sensitivity to emotions, right? You feel emotions more strongly, and/or you feel for others just as strongly and more passionate and/or understanding of the human emotions. Feelings hit on a deeper level for you than for most people perhaps. Yes yes?
Empathic - This is a term for a type of Psychic Ability. It’s that you’re “Picking Up” emotions from other people. It’s not that you’re feeling things your own, but you just *know* what other people around you (or maybe across long distance if you’re strongly connected to them) are feeling despite not being told or aware of it. It’s harder to explain (as most Emotion-Related things are), it’s not these feelings are your Own--- they belong to someone else, and you’re just hyper aware of this. Sometimes though that picking up on another person’s feeling will cause you to feel it as well (which is most often the case). If someone is feeling irritable or sad or anxious and so on, then I’ll act in the same--- even if I have no reason of my own to feel such a way. It’s just that I’m picking up on other people’s feelings as if they’re my own, but in reality they’re not.
I hope I made sense so far! Describing Empathy at 1:20 in the morning is really hard, LoL~!
Now, often times though “Super-Feelers” have a chance to be a little bit Empathic as well. I know I am. I’m an extremely sensitive person because of how I feel everyone’s emotions, so my own emotions plus having to *completely experience* another’s is really, well, emotional! As an Empath, too, you also have the understanding and deep connection of understanding human emotions, and to make it worse: Empathics tend to be a little “hyper-sensitive,” meaning that we tend to feel as though the emotions are hitting us 2x as much as the person experiencing it. (This isn’t that it’s “worse” for us--- it’s just that we know how to handle our own emotions, but handling another person’s a little harder to manage when you’re not used to it. The person who is personally experiencing things will always be more valid, I say).
To Summarize: Empathics tend to be “Super-Feelers” or Sensitive, but not all “Super-Feelers” are Empathics!
I hope this helps!