Self-Proclaimed "Empath" Actually Just An Emotional Wreck

Local woman Dana Foster, a self-proclaimed “empath”, or a spiritual term for someone who is highly sensitive and empathetic, realized yesterday that she’s actually just really unstable and overthinks everything.

“I used to think that I could feel what other people felt, and couldn’t go out in public because of it. My therapist helped me realize that I just have severe social anxiety, and am just conscious of other people’s emotions due to childhood trauma,” stated Foster exasperatedly.

Foster has spent the last twelve years believing that she is an empath to justify her emotional reactivity and sensitivity to other’s emotions. According to her therapist, however, she is not at all an empath.

“I think she just says the empath thing for attention. She suffers from affective instability and mood related issues. She has not had a healthy interpersonal relationship once in her life. In fact, she’s been pretty inconsiderate to most of her once close friends. She isn’t a bad person, but she certainly shouldn’t justify her behavior by calling herself an empath,” said therapist, Doctor McGowan.

At press time, Foster is still coming to terms with the fact that her emotional instability cannot be justified by a spiritual term that others on the internet with similar problems and beliefs identify with.