Solía pensar que entendía que era la empatia, y que los evitativos en general teníamos (o tienen) mas empatia que el promedio. Google define empatia como:
Participación afectiva de una persona en una realidad ajena a ella, generalmente en los sentimientos de otra persona.
Acá les dejo la opinión de un evitativo en ingles:
Todo esto es muy confuso. Yo me considero una persona muy sensible al dolor, soledad y precariedad ajenos. Pero no se si eso sea participar realmente de los sentimientos de otro. Y si se trata de temas que no son de mi interés, puedo escuchar pero no emocionarme. Por ejemplo, si un amigo me cuenta emocionado que compro un piso, o que el fin de semana hizo algún deporte extremo, le escuchare, pero nada mas.
¿Que opinan ustedes?
Participación afectiva de una persona en una realidad ajena a ella, generalmente en los sentimientos de otra persona.
Acá les dejo la opinión de un evitativo en ingles:
Does anyone else here lack empathy?
I think this stems from my world view (people are 'bad', unless they prove to me otherwise) and my narcissistic self-absorption.
I seriously couldn't care less if a bomb dropped in Africa or something and killed 10 million people. I do not know these people and their death will not affect my life in any way. Michael Jackson died today and all I thought was 'heh, so what? I don't like his music anyway'.
On the other hand, for people I have a close relationship with I have deep empathy for (very few people). Also when reading some threads from people on this board, I sometimes get emotional. I was almost moved to tears (I rarely cry, last time was around a year ago) by a story on this forum I read which I could relate to on many levels, it sounded like I wrote the post myself. I think it might have something to do with a mutual understanding that I feel no one else has for me.
Y aca otro:
Yes. Many avoidants either don’t realize or don’t want to admit this but: many of us only do things for people out of fear of being criticized for not doing it. Our motivation for being helpful and caring doesn’t come from a genuine place of concern for the person. Rather it comes from a concern of how we are viewed by others.
So if someone asked me to do a favor, I will normally not want or care to do the favor for that person…even if it’s my own wife. However, I will still fulfill the request diligently because I don’t want to be criticized for NOT doing it and labeled “selfish”.
Similarly, if someone is expressing their feelings, I will likely NOT empathize with them naturally. However, I know how a normal person SHOULD react to the situation. Therefore, I will put on an act as if I’m empathizing. I put on this act so that I don’t reveal my true emotions: apathy, coldness, indifference, etc. It’s worked for me many times. But part of me still feels bad for not feeling what everyone else does…but I honestly can’t force myself to feel something that’s simply not there.
Y la opinión de un psicoterapista:This is very difficult to discover as AP create appearances all the time and do not disclose themselves.
It is quite possible that the avoidant personality disorder lacks empathy. They do not express their own feelings. They do not respond or acknowledge others feelings. They respond to people’s pain with solutions rather than empathic to feelings statements.
Significantly in couple therapy the AP looks for a rule to follow to please the other and create peace rather than make connection.
Connection requires empathy or related capacities and APs always avoid connection. Maybe they are incapable.
In the crunch the avoidant personality show the true colours of fear and hate rather than love. When one’s marital partner chooses to leave how does the avoidant act? Only those who have been through it will know.
When you chose to divorce or separate the avoidant personality displays a reaction much like one would expect of a psychopath - an attack to destroy the partner. Like a blood sample at one’s doctor’s office the crisis reveals the contents of the heart. It is not empathy!
Todo esto es muy confuso. Yo me considero una persona muy sensible al dolor, soledad y precariedad ajenos. Pero no se si eso sea participar realmente de los sentimientos de otro. Y si se trata de temas que no son de mi interés, puedo escuchar pero no emocionarme. Por ejemplo, si un amigo me cuenta emocionado que compro un piso, o que el fin de semana hizo algún deporte extremo, le escuchare, pero nada mas.
¿Que opinan ustedes?