Chat How Do I Comfort The Traumatized Child Soldier In My Head

chat how do I comfort the traumatized child soldier in my head

exams tmrw….

i've seen quite a bit of confusion about this, so let me attempt to clear things up :

empathy is the ability to feel somebody's emotions as though they are affecting you personally. for example, somebody tells you "my dog died last night!" -> you now feel as though you've lost a pet personally -> you feel grief and sadness just like the other person. not everyone has empathy. it's a trait some people develop and others don't. some have high empathy, some have low empathy, some (like me) have none.

sympathy is the ability to understand and care about somebody else's struggles, even if you don't feel them yourself. so, somebody tells you their dog died -> you realize how this affects them emotionally -> you care about this person, and are upset that they are suffering. not everyone has sympathy either! it's a scale, just like empathy.

compassion is doing something to relieve another person's suffering or make them feel better. somebody tells you their dog died -> you don't want them to remain upset -> you come up with ways to help them feel better, like offering comfort and distractions, or other forms of support. compassion is a learned trait, not something you can be born with like empathy or sympathy. anyone can learn to be compassionate, although some may struggle more with it than others; it's a skill, just like anything else.

however, none of these are required to be a good person. that's a choice you make on your own accord. i hope this clears things up!

system ask game!

🦋 - How many headmates do you have?

🍋 - How many are near the front right now?

📖 - What source do you have the most introjects from?

🧹- What role does the system have the most of?

🍟 - Most surprising alter?

🧠 - What's the headspace like?

🌹 - Any relationships within the system?

⭐️ - Average age of headmates?

🤝 - First alter you discovered?

💕 - Most recent alter discovered?

💬 - Does anyone have an accent?

⚔️ - What does the system disagree on the most?

🍃 - What can everyone agree on?

🐟 - Which alters are the most similar within the system?

🍿 - Who just can't get along?

anti-endos, sysmeds, etc DNI. people have the right to not answer any questions that make them uncomfortable!

"don't mass reblog/like :/" coward. fool. somebody just went through and liked and reblogged 64 things from my blog in the span of half an hour at most. and i've never felt more alive in my life

scared the school has a threat against it today and we are stuck here and no one is doing anything about it because they don’t think it’s real