What if everything you thought you knew about being an empath was protecting you from an even darker truth?br br What if everything you thought you knew about being an empath was actually protecting you from an even more uncomfortable truth? We love to romanticize empathy as a gift, a superpower, a mystical ability to heal everyone around us. But there's a dangerous population of highly sensitive people who have been completely overlooked by the mainstream self-help movement—the silent empaths who are slowly crumbling under the weight of emotions that were never theirs to carry.br br In this deeply psychological video, we explore the dark, suppressed reality of what Carl Jung called "the forgotten pathology of empathy." These are not the glowing, serene healers you see Instagram posts about. These are the individuals who sit in rooms full of people, absorbing every unspoken tension, every hidden resentment, every ancestral fear floating in the atmosphere—and then they go home and fall apart in silence. Their bodies carry the weight of a thousand emotions that have no name, no origin, and no release valve.br .br .br .br .br .br .br .br .br .