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Originally Posted by Jersey01
When you read something somewhere and your initial reaction is "Oh, so and so is being so selfish" And you can't be empathic to their situation because of your initial reaction-Does that make me an uncaring mean person?
Just to note: This has nothing to do with anything that I read on the couch. I'm just asking..
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I have that reaction pretty often, and have been working on tempering it. My T says that I cannot expect everyone to react to things with the same level of generosity or compassion. I do have a pretty big negative reaction to selfishness.