Social anxiety? You have a special gift

[Kyralina 97]

A scientific study has been done on those with social anxiety and it turns out that most of them are empaths. And it's because they are empaths that they get social anxiety.

 

www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/new-study-links-social-anxiety-to-being-empath/

 

What is an empath?

 

in a nutshell an empath is someone who can feel other peoples emotions even if they keep it hidden. They can understand peoples state of minds and powerful empaths can strongly influence peoples emotions. Great if you wanna convince someone to like you

 

For more info on this study see this link in thread:

[SpiderDiscord 145]

Oh wow!

Makes sense why I absorb the emotions around me like a sponge!

[Castle Bleck 19,167]

No wonder Fluttershy was able to win Discord's respect.

[Venomous 18,813]

This describes me so well.

[shy0wl 484]

Now if only we could express those feelings to people without being too scared to 

[JonasDarkmane 19,777]

Huh, I see. I am pretty socially anxious, but I don't really know 

[Kyabetsuko 79]

We should found a league.

And then everyone would be awed... You know what, forget it. Don't think I could handle that much attention

[Probably Lee 197]

I used to be really anxious, and i consider myself pretty empathetic. I have had an overall low-trauma life, yet when someone has a really rough patch in their life, i feel like i can understand them and feel what they are feeling.

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 40,291]

Social anxiety is one of my biggest problems and I have been told I am empathetic, so I guess this makes sense. I tend to avoid people anyways though so many probably wouldn't notice.

[Inactive01 5,298]

Oh geez... I get socially anxious around women all the time... I hope that means something good!

[Sommar 1,289]

Wow I didn't know that! I always thought it was strange that I'm empathetic and now I know why!

[EpicEnergy 22,082]

I have social anxiety, but I wouldn't call myself an empath. I have problems figuring out what I'm feeling, so if I can't understand my own feelings, how will I understand others' feelings?

[Fluttershutter 2,118]

I'm always skeptical of studies about things like this. Nobody can ever really know what somebody else is thinking or feeling. I feel bad for people when I see they're in pain but often I have no idea what other people are feeling or I read them entirely wrong. Other people are a total mystery.

[Winter Storm 207]

I have an absolute ton of social anxiety but I would never call myself an empath. Maybe when I was younger I used to care more about the feelings of others than I do now but now I feel like I have to only look after myself since nobody else will ever do that for me.

[TBD 17,228]

Hm for me it’s more like not wanting to deal with people’s bs. I don’t have a serious social anxiety but dealing with rude people raise the bar for me.

[Savygriffs 5,022]

I have a lot of social anxiety, I'm extremely quite around people I don't know well. 

[Retro*Derpy 3,081]

My social anxiety cripples more than gives.