The Quiet Collapse of Self-Empathy

Why People Are Losing the Ability to Understand Their Own Distress

The quietest crisis of our time is unfolding inside individuals who no longer know how to be on their own side.

Self-empathy is deteriorating because the environments people inhabit no longer support internal clarity. The decline is not driven by personal failure but by conditions that train individuals to mistrust their emotional perceptions. These cond…