Interesting video...some narcissists CAN be self-aware

Lol, thanks for the hugs

I get what you say, then I want to be like you, minus the boredom hahaha!

Idk....emotions are good, but negative ones can drive you crazzzy

If I asked you to show me how you can make me 'feel great', what would you take from someone like me?

Yes my emotional range is based on my childhood. I wasn't able to broaden or mature those emotions as a "normal" person would I suppose. Leaves me with a limited range and also the ability to go completely numb at times with ZERO feelings or emotions. This has its positives and negatives. Avatar you should be happy that you feel, even if at times its sadness and depression. I can watch someone hurt and sad and feel nothing, you get to have some empathy and feel others hurts and emotions where as I only feel my own. My ways really aren't that great. I create my own paths at all times, drive people around me nuts and never get affected because of this. It would probably be ok to be able to look at someone and see the pain their in even if I caused it and be able to understand fully and make a difference to do better. Many of my emotions are based on music, music makes me feel things and understand feelings better than anything else (as weird as that may sound). You see if you were a narc you would only care about yourself and work at everything just for the way you are perceived. It's a curse really, sure I can joke and make light of all my dark but really I am a broken person. We are people who are only concerned for our own playbooks. It's really not as great as I always make it sound. This here is real. Be happy your miserable and not like "us". Trust me it's better!!! Now I want my hugs!!!!!!
Also this will be in my book ha ha ha

That it's already begun!!

Aww a million quantum hugs sent your way, under rofl!
I hope you can catch them all!
If you manage to make me feel happy that I feel sad when I'm sad, I think you might be a pioneer in the cure for depression and we could become a successful case study!
Underground, the depression Master, bow down, peeps!

HAHAHAHHAHAHA, you truly made me laugh out loud with that one

Narcissists have emotions just like anyone else, they are simply buried.

A pathological narcisisst has emotions, plenty of them. What they do not have is empathy.

Underground, that breaks my heart...I'm sorry that you are trapped within yourself. It must be awful. The fact that you want to feel empathy seems like evidence to me that you are still a good person. You lack a skill, not a heart.

I know that. I do not think of empathy as an emotion so that is why I did not mention it.

I think empathy is an emotion, you feel it, feel anothers pain, so, it is an emotion.
Narcs only feel their own emotions.

Well, as I don't experience most emotions I'll suppose you're the expert here.

What you say about Narcissists has proven true in my experience with Narcissists, sure they feel emotions, but only their own.

Intellectually I can understand "feeling" empathy though I am incapable of such myself. But it is hard for me to grasp how someone can truly know/experience what another is feeling. Like, how is that possible? What does it mean to "feel another's pain"? How does it "work"?

Also, if empathy is simply taking on another person's emotions and feeling them... then how is it really an emotion if you're just feeling someone else's?

Also, if empathy is simply taking on another person's emotions and feeling them... then how is it really an emotion if you're just feeling someone else's?[/QUOTE]

That's a GREAT point! You got me thinking there ....I think what people who feel emotions can do is relate to how they "felt" in a similar situation the person/sufferer is going through. It's not exactly feeling another person's emotions, but more of "evoking" a similar emotion you felt before, hence you sort of "get" what they are going through. People usually say "I feel you", they are really feeling their own past emotions, re-lived by what the person is relaying.
I also think many times people lie about "feeling or getting someone else's emotions" just to be nice and sympathetic to them, but they have no clue about what the other person is going through.

Like I said in the past I am truly magical. My light has shined down upon you giving you feelings of hope. You see I speak truths, we're already on the path you seek from me. And I know how it makes you feel..... Your welcome!!!

OMFG! :O HAHAHAHAHA! WOW under! I was having a sip of beer while reading this and an ubrupt uncontrollable laughter came out and I chocked on my bear and almost died! thanks for almost making me die, under

What the heck? I'll stop seeing my dumb therapist, why do I need them if you exist?

Maybe that's the new groundbreaking treatment for chronically depressed people....a narcissistic buddy to be there by our side!

Sounds about as reasonable as anything else

Lobs, you nailed it!

That's a GREAT point! You got me thinking there ....I think what people who feel emotions can do is relate to how they "felt" in a similar situation the person/sufferer is going through. It's not exactly feeling another person's emotions, but more of "evoking" a similar emotion you felt before, hence you sort of "get" what they are going through. People usually say "I feel you", they are really feeling their own past emotions, re-lived by what the person is relaying.
I also think many times people lie about "feeling or getting someone else's emotions" just to be nice and sympathetic to them, but they have no clue about what the other person is going through.[/quote]

True. But then again most of my empathy is for animals, I dont like people much. Animals are the innocents so often victims of human cruelty or greedy. I feel physically sick and genuinly heartbroken when I see the ruthless, moronic, braindead murder of for instance Rhinos, an endangered speces.
It is beyond me to understand psycopaths like these trophy hunters below. And yup, I could shoot everyone of them, no problem.
What is wrong with people?

Avatar10 and marmaduke, thank you both for your explanations! I like to hear how different people define empathy, I find it fascinating.

Also, marmaduke, unlike the stereotype of a psychopath you just mentioned... I like most animals. I have three black cats. They sleep on me every night, lol. The only kind of animal I really just don't like are dogs, but I don't go around being cruel to them either. It would not benefit me to be cruel to a being who by its nature really cannot defend itself. Also, I think that poachers/trophy hunters such as you showed a picture of are just gun happy buttholes, all in all, pathetic.

The bolded part makes a hell of a lot of sense to me. Makes empathy sound far more reasonable instead of this almost spiritual way that I've heard a lot of people describe it as that makes zero logical sense.

Also, that last sentence you wrote was beautifully honest so I put it in red. That impressed me.

I'm sooooo feeling the love in here. Between agreements and animals this is so beautiful....... So warm and fuzzy inside!!!!

Hahahahahahahah! Good day Underground!

True. But then again most of my empathy is for animals, I dont like people much. Animals are the innocents so often victims of human cruelty or greedy. I feel physically sick and genuinly heartbroken when I see the ruthless, moronic, braindead murder of for instance Rhinos, an endangered speces.
It is beyond me to understand psycopaths like these trophy hunters below. And yup, I could shoot everyone of them, no problem.
What is wrong with people?

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Marmaduke, you are right, animal cruelty is wrong and I love animals and would never hurt them. But thinking that psychopaths are animal abusers/killers is an overgeneralization. I don't think all psycopaths are the same, as not all depressed people are suicidal.

Thanks Aty

Also, marmaduke, unlike the stereotype of a psychopath you just mentioned... I like most animals. I have three black cats. They sleep on me every night, lol. The only kind of animal I really just don't like are dogs, but I don't go around being cruel to them either. It would not benefit me to be cruel to a being who by its nature really cannot defend itself. Also, I think that poachers/trophy hunters such as you showed a picture of are just gun happy buttholes, all in all, pathetic.[/QUOTE]

CATS RULE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Of course dear.