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What’s the difference between
“Empowering Empathy” and “Crippling Empathy”?

In short, the amount of support that one has.

Photograph of my perfect son, Sean Kiska: “I Wish they could just get a Normal Divorce” by Andeé Sea Cae Jak 

(Re-print of Quora.com post by Deirdre Ann Moore ||| edited, formatted and published March 5, 2021 and updated on December 22, )

(20210305 07:54 e.s.t.)

Good Grief. Ms. Engelstad, I apologize (on behalf of everyone who barfed up an utterly useless and/or insulting answer to your excellent question). I think that if you had replaced the words “enabling” with “empowering” and “toxic” with “crippling”, some of these [insert pluralized noun of choice] may have had a slightly better chance of understanding your excellent question.

I shall try to answer your question by way of example. My home town (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) is a hub for human trafficking and drug trafficking as well as providing bodies for The Prison Industry which is one of the provinces primary industries. The city has also been fully infested by sociopaths and gang-stalking runs rampant.

My children are extremely empathetic and they were targeted at a very young age, as was I. They were, effectively, kidnapped by my sociopathic ex who leveraged the local corruption to rip me from their lives over two years ago and I have not been permitted to speak to them since. My daughter is on the forced-prostitution track and my son is on the teen-suicide track. (The beasts in my town do this for sport.)

Since 2013, I have gone from a domestic violence victim to a gang-stalking target to a whistle-blower/political activist to bait. (I now have dirt on a over two dozen judges, tons of lawyers, and dozens of police officers and a kazillion gang-stalkers.) Feeling for, not just my own children (now aged 13 and 14; exceptionally vulnerable as their wicked father continues to gaslight them about me while he, in reality, could care less about them); but, also all of their empathetic friends empowers me to fight the corruption legally and expose the corruption through marketing, social media and any other platform that I can find. I am building (slowly, but surely) a for-social-benefit enterprise that will assist other victims which is also an extremely cathartic exercise.

Link to original Quora.com answer: https://qr.ae/pNdeUa

I have fully embraced “empowering empathy”, you might call it. What other choice did I have? To rescue my children (and their empathetic friends*), I had to convert my mental map into one of a “soldier” from one of a mother; at least, until I am re-united with my teens. Otherwise, I would have been finished by now: curled up in a ball and drenched in my own tears and/or blood. That, I would argue, must be what “crippling empathy” must feel like and, likely, one of the leading causes of suicide.

How have I managed to stay so strong? I have had a lot of emotional, strategic and tactical support. My high E.Q. (Emotional Quotient) enables me to leverage my developing C.Q. (Communication Quotient). As E.Q. + C.Q. > I.Q., I have a significant advantage over my “enemies”. I simply need to remain diligent, vigilant and patient.

I have provided a link to an article, “What is Empathy?” by Peter Augros with links to other information and opinions that you might find interesting.

In closing, thank you for your question and I am truly sorry that you had to endure reading some of the responses.

Andeé / Deirdre

*Some of their “friends” are not empathetic:

  • some are sociopaths which are as fake and as wicked as their father,
  • some are sympaths which simply take advantage of their/my hospitality/generosity and
  • some have already been recruited as gang-stalkers; like their parent(s).

I care for them as I would care for a pet, a wild animal and a “frenemy”, respectively.

Other work-in-progress articles available at www.pfi.ROCKS Living! Magazine

Andeé’s views on empathy: “What is Empathy? It falls somewhere between sympathy and compassion.”

“Why do Narcissists Destroy their own Families?” by Frank Gallagher

“Abuse in Marriage & Divorce: Warning. As Goes the Marriage, so Goes the Divorce” by Sharon Zarozny

(Link to Anne Kingston’s article “We are the Dead”: https://www.macleans.ca/news/canada/we-are-the-dead/)

Meet Andeé Sea Cae Jak