Ineffable Ontological Detanglement .: Introspective Assistance & Mental Analysis Manual
Yes, this is within the exact same framework as all other mental conditions. "Oh but empath is a happy word not a crazy word." Generally, no, this particular disorder does not hurt you, within the milder levels of empath it will only ever help you, within the higher levels it can hurt you quite severely. It can overwhelm you emotionally and it can turn you into somebody you don't wish to be.
Like the schizos and schizo-adjacent conditions, and autism, this one is pretty much base, high levels of empath are pretty much branching out of base human processes. The empath allows you to take apart people's expression, the feelings within them, and land on an understanding of the manner of presentation, the feelings connected to the thoughts that are presented within their expression. If you are a smart person who understands how to use it, it helps you to understand the psychology of the person speaking, understand the underlying thoughts and feelings behind their expression.
Within any level of empath, you really have the option to hurt others, it gives you the ability to be incredibly manipulative. In the higher levels of empath, yes, it really does become the fantastical magical fantasy mental condition that people often claim it is, the awareness of people's feelings begins to hit levels quite mysterious... They're literally actually seeing a metaphysical framework of your feelings as readable on your face, it goes basically telepathic. They can repress memories and create false memories on command. They can pull what they want to hear right out of your face. It breaks the interconnection.
It does not automatically declare you the magical people reader at the lower levels. A lot of level two cognitive functioning types will realize "Oh, my brain seems to be really good at picking up on people's feelings. I can use this to confirm myself."
To those of us who can handle the brain, the combination of empath and paranoid creates perfect people reading ability... So long as you know how to filter out your psychosis.
This is why you think inanimate objects have feelings. You have a little bit of empath. They don't, though. Except stuffed animals those have feelings.
With empath you are less likely to be into threesomes, you prefer to focus your attention on one person at a time. You're less likely to be into being surrounded by cute animals, you like to focus your attention on one animal at a time. You prefer dealing with people one at a time.
The most holy of empaths are on a mission to spread the word of superficial beauty. Particularly threatening underworld types. At an early age, can you play superficiality games correctly? You may make it. By the time you hit twenty five, are you still playing superficiality games or have you become your ideal image? Do you want to become a brainwashed demented weasel who spreads the word that anybody who approaches this particular club with this particular type of haircut goes home and kills himself with jizz in his pants?
The ability to attune to feelings can most certainly be used against people, used to bring people where the empath wishes to bring people. The idea of empathy can be used to hook you, you see the empath as the warm loving shoulder you can cry upon, the connection is made, and now you are under the control of the empath. They can draw in everyone else in your lives and turn them all against you. Less sexy, they can sob story you to death in order to get you to validate them, they can guilt you into never daring to hurt them. They may wish to draw you towards negative feelings so they can eat your negative feelings.
Empaths are working on a plan, they have a start that connects your feelings to what they wish for you to say so they can passive aggressively destroy it and lock you into their game. And now you've already revealed too much of yourself or not yourself, you have no choice. The initial approach is false image. They're looking for a competing false image that can keep up with their initial false image that dips below your false image by revealing a secondary false image. Once it has been set, they begin to passive aggressively imply they may reveal this. Ideally, they're looking for very public hypocrisy. Shamefully, they're looking for hypocrisy relating to the thing about you that drew you in. Know that the second they fulfill what you fear, they've ruined their game. Know, that, currently, and with most of us forever, men do a much better "Well then I may just have to close it." Maybe, once you clue into what they're doing, talk about how good you are at hiding bodies. Know that if you talk to the police, you tell them about empath games and you're fine. Watch Aria Wellington do it way better than you, you fucking uniform ego invested weirdos. I don't know, Kit Carruthers pretty much says close it, you get in trouble contact somebody, that's fucking off world feminine dysfunction. Don't femdom that way, ladies. Don't make us show you our mandom.
A mid empath, no there is no need for a barrier they're perfectly normal levels of fucked up people. A high magical empath, yes, go in with automatic barrier, know that it's possible what you are looking at is sub-human. Even if you are clearly an impressive person, if this woman is still locked into her childhood empathic ego games she still automatically goes into all new relationships hoping to manipulate into destruction with false presentation. You don't need to take this personally, you just need to know what to look for. It's a hard "Can I trust you?" to break, because she may well remain behind a shield of empath magic. You pretty much need the mid levels of empath to nail it and trust it, but, look for the genuine loving evil in her eyes, if there's any form of softness or lovie dovieness whatsoever this is a game. You may begin to one day see the softness and lovie dovieness, for now you're in a lot of trouble. Remember, empaths are working on a plan, they have a start that connects your feelings to what they wish for you to say so they can passive aggressively destroy it and lock you into their game. If you're a genuinely impressive person and yet she still automatically wants to destroy you, she never broke the childhood trap. You don't have to take it personally. If you're a not particularly impressive person and a high magical empath seems to be engaging with you in coming onto her you're probably safe she's fine just keep your head level make your analysis she's probably perfectly sane. It has the word empathy in it.
Know that not every empath who ends up having a passive aggressive explosion on you was always out to hurt you. Sometimes it may even seem like they went into it manipulating you to the point they can have their explosion. It's not intentional, it was semi-conscious. It's the same thing as with schizophrenia or high autism, they never turned off their delusions. Be careful turning off your delusions, empaths, when you get to "It's not me it's just the force flowing through me I don't care..." it's gonna make you brain dead. You have to remember yes it is you, we're all a God expression your's just flies out of control, thinking is the same, it's the same thing you've been doing all your life.