help! i have no empathy for people?!

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dude maybe you should just go to jail for a few days and see how you feel.
Reading that story honestly made me wish that person was you.
If only you knew what I went through out there.

http://www.healthexpertadvice.org/forum/Mental-Health/Do-emotional-scars-ever-really-heal-154069.htm

You are not alone. I am the same way. I cannot stand when people tell me their problems because then I have to try to act like I care. It's terrible.

it could just be depression or perhaps aspergers syndrome

Then you need some serious help, you are a pschycopath

You're not a psychopath, you're not terrible. In fact, you have to understand why people feel empathy. People feel empathy because they have gone through something terrible in their life as well. If you have a traumatic experience, you can understand how someone else feels from going through the same experience. Or, what they went through was not as bad, but they felt terrible, so can't even fathom what people who have experienced worse have gone through.

So I'm guessing that neither you or the girl who said she felt the same way have ever experienced something terrible in your life. If so, it is completely normal to feel the way you do.

Best way to cure this (if you would like to): try to imagine what your life would be like if what happened to them happened to you. Imagine if hundreds of men took advantage of you. You wouldn't want someone saying, "wtf, who cares? i mean thousands of people die everyday, why is this person being given so much publicity when she is not permanently injured , afterall when u go to a country that is having violent protests, and u get hurt, dont come home crying about it".

Just try to remember that problems people have are real to them. If you don't have empathy for them, just pretend you do. I'm sorry you don't feel for these people, but you shouldn't let people know that, or you will have people say things like the people who answered before me.(They have no empathy for you :-) )

Maybe one day you will go through a traumatic experience, and you may feel empathy for someone who has also.