Empathy Is Not A Psychic Ability

__There is the fashionable notion nowadays for individuals to be branded as 'psychics' or 'empaths' if they are emotionally sensitive or display a high level of compassion towards others. It is automatically assumed that people who are emotionally highly intelligent must also have an exceptional capacity for extra-sensory perception.

Nothing could be further from the truth. If anything, this myth is serving to confuse and mislead people, and may even cause further emotional damage, by imposi...