Faux empathy and backdated empathy: When it feels like you’ve been ‘jacked’

Faux empathy and backdated empathy: When it feels like you’ve been ‘jacked’

I was laughing with a friend recently about feeling emotionally jacked by somebody. Many moons ago, she’d shared a painful experience with her mother, only be to met with derision and a lack of support. Feeling ashamed and as if her feelings and experience...