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drclay said:
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Where did you get all this information? Looked pretty authoritative to me. I went to my empathy section to see if I had it right (according to you) at http://www.psychologicalselfhelp.org.../chap13_8.html

They are two good words. A helper would not continue sympathizing on and on and neither would a good empathizer. Wouldn't they both want to change the focus? The sympathizer would eventually want to get off of the sad, upsetting topic by changing the topic. The empathizer would shift to "it must seem that your thoughts about this are endless, don't you want to think about other things or about how you can get off this topic?
Back to my writing.

drclay

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