'Sympathy offers another absolutely no support, it is simply an imposing way to communicate to someone that they are not an equal and must be helped because they cannot do it for themselves. An extremely disempowering way to be with another that leaves them feeling less even if we help them out of a situation, for they in the process never get to feel that they had the power within them but instead they needed our help to do it. This does not mean we don't support others, but supporting vs. helping are two very different things.' - Brendan Mooney Psychologist
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'When we realise sympathy does not work and only leads to feeling burnt out by people in the end, many shut down and go into self-survival...which equally does not work and results in the uncaring human being. We really ought to support each other as a community to understand exactly how to be with each other in a way that occurs at no-one's expense.' - Brendan Mooney Psychologist
'Both sympathy and empathy treat another as less, a disempowering way of relating to others that does not support them to truly grow within themselves.' - Brendan Mooney Psychologist
'The supply and demand for sympathy in the world is huge, as sympathy never asks us to be responsible but to believe that life just happens to us and we have no control over it...' - Brendan Mooney Psychologist
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