Assertion: empathy | /r/HasProperty | painful
Facets:
value: to oneself
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: as an emotional experience
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: That’s because as an emotional experience, empathy is painful, and we can be so motivated to reduce that pain that we help when we shouldn’t or in ways that aren’t helpful.
text: Empathy may be painful to oneself: seeing the pain of others, especially as broadcasted by mass media, can cause one temporary or permanent clinical depression; a phenomenon which is sometimes called weltschmerz.
text: Empathy may be painful to oneself: seeing the pain of others, especially as broadcasted by mass media, can cause one temporary or permanent clinical depression; a phenomenon which is sometimes called weltschmerz.