Dark empaths are people that are sensitive to the emotions and feelings of others, and they are able to easily pick them up. The difference between them and a regular empath is that they use this information that they pick up to manipulate other people and to get what they want.
This type of personality will use the feelings and thoughts of others to humiliate, deceive and manipulate others such as a bully. What happens though when two dark empaths collide with each other?
What Do They Know?
Dark empaths are about to know about you even more than you might know yourself. They will do what they can to become friends with you or to get in a relationship with you and they will do this by getting to really know you. They will ask you questions about what you like and what your hobbies are.
They will focus on you to understand you and once they get enough information about you, they will figure out how to use it against you. But when two empaths collide, they will ask each other questions but they will be careful about what they reveal about themselves because they aren’t very vulnerable. They will make it almost like a game to see who reveals the most information.
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Dark empaths will need to be the center of the party and they want all the attention on themselves. They will point out anything that you do wrong, and they will embarrass other people and put them down if they are getting the attention. They will even go to a birthday party just to tell embarrassing stories about the birthday person so that they can get back the attention on them.
If there are two dark empaths when one tells an embarrassing story, the other empath will tell a story that is even more embarrassing until they are both retaliating and trying to be on top. This can be worse for people that have other dark personalities such as narcissists. Not only do they need to feel important, but they will also never regard your feelings.
- Self-Critical
Dark empaths are self-critical, and they use this for manipulation of others. They will put themselves down over and over again so that someone will do something to cheer them up or to tell them that they are wrong.
They will try to one-up someone by saying something after someone says something so that they can seem better than that person. If you tell someone that you’re getting a raise and they are a dark empath instead of saying, “congratulations,” they will say, “Oh yeah, I’m getting mine next week.” They will want to feel more important than you and will say this even if it isn’t true.
A dark empath will take anything you are feeling, and they will use it against you. If you’re sad about something they will use this knowledge to take advantage of you.
- Negativity
Dark empaths don’t have a lot of positivity in their personality unless they are getting what they want out of you. Having this kind of person as a friend might not end well with you and it will cause you to see them as toxic. They will try to make others feel dumb or unworthy and this is part of their narcissistic qualities.
Final Thoughts
Someone that is a dark empath will do whatever they can to make themselves look better than everyone. They will take their toxic behavior and use it against anyone and everyone that they meet. They never think of anyone else. They want to be the best and the number one and they will hurt as many people as they can along the way.
They are people that follow chaos and when you put two of them together you shouldn’t let anything they do shock or surprise you.
*Sigh*… Dark empaths are nothing but emotional vampires in disguise. The worst part is they know how to play the victim so well that you end up feeling guilty for THEIR behavior!
*rolls eyes* Honestly, this sounds like something straight out of an astrology book: vague generalizations with no real substance. How do we even differentiate between a ‘dark empath’ and any other manipulative person?
*Wow*, who knew that empathy—something usually seen as compassionate—could have such a twisted side? It’s almost poetic how something meant to connect us can also be used to divide us when wielded by the wrong hands.
*Two dark empaths walk into a bar…* They both spend the entire night trying to out-manipulate each other until they realize they’re playing the same game and end up becoming best frenemies! Sounds like the plot of a sitcom.
‘Dark empathy’ sounds like it could be an interesting branch of study in social and cognitive psychology. However, without substantial empirical evidence or peer-reviewed research supporting these claims, it feels speculative at best.
Fascinating concept! I’ve always known about empaths, but I never considered the idea of ‘dark empaths’ using emotional insight for manipulation. It’s almost Machiavellian in nature. Are there any psychological studies on this? I’d love to dive deeper into the science behind it.
Oh great, just what we needed—another term to describe manipulative people. Because calling someone a narcissist wasn’t enough, now we need ‘dark empath’? What’s next, ‘benevolent psychopath’?
This feels overly simplistic. You’re painting a very black-and-white picture of human behavior. People are more nuanced than just ‘dark empath’ or ‘narcissist.’ Not everything can be neatly categorized like that.