I care and can empathize. But sometimes, when I've really got it bad myself, I don't have the capacity. The principle behind that is, you can't give what you don't have.

But sometimes I can tell that I'm relapsing, by the lack of caring for others. If I start getting intolerant of other people's symptoms, that's a symptom itself, and a red flag for me.

News stories make me cry sometimes. And I can empathize with the death of a child, because I've buried one of mine. However, I think it's human nature to have some element of "well, it doesn't affect me, so why bother?" It's extremes, I believe, that are unhealthy. When other people's pain becomes your own, to the point that you aren't living your own life but theirs, that's one extreme. When you can watch a person being brutally beaten right before your eyes and not even think "ouch," that's another. Most of us, IMO, want to be somewhere in the middle.