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Speaker 1: George Nor with you. Dr Judith Orloff with US. Psychiatrist

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Speaker 1: in path author. Dr Orloff specializes in treating empaths and

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Speaker 1: highly sensitive people in her private practice. Very passionate about

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Speaker 1: helping people come out of the closet and become empowered.

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Speaker 1: She believes that empathy is the medicine that will save

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Speaker 1: our world and our planet, and her latest work, The

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Speaker 1: Empaths surf Viable gued Juda's welcome to the program. Oh

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Speaker 1: hi to or just nice to talk to you. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to this. Tell us what empaths are.

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Speaker 1: Who are they now? I'm a psychiatrist, I'm also an EmPATH,

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Speaker 1: and EmPATH is somebody who is open and intuitive and

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Speaker 1: is very giving, but they tend to absorb the world's

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Speaker 1: stress and angst and negative energy into their bodies, and

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Speaker 1: so they tend to get very exhausted by the world

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Speaker 1: because they're emotional sponges and they take on so much

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Speaker 1: of the stress that's going on. And since the stress

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Speaker 1: has really amped up in the last six months, there's

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Speaker 1: so many people coming out as EmPATH because people with

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Speaker 1: the regular defenses no longer have their defenses and are

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Speaker 1: just feeling that their sensitivities are raw because they're inundated

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Speaker 1: by all the stress and all the horrors that happen

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Speaker 1: every day. And so empaths are the sensitive people in

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Speaker 1: the world, and I wanted to write the book to

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Speaker 1: give them strategies so that they up absorbing all this

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Speaker 1: because they could become debilitated, exhausted with agoraphobia or anxiety

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Speaker 1: or depression. And so it's important for empaths to learn

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Speaker 1: how to maintain their strength at the same time as

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Speaker 1: not absorbing all this stress that's around us. Our empaths

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Speaker 1: numbers growing, Judith, Definitely they are. I can't tell you

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Speaker 1: how many calls I get from people saying I'm just

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Speaker 1: so exhausted, I'm so tired, I feel so anxious because

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Speaker 1: there's just so much more to deal with now. And

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Speaker 1: also I think a lot of impacts are coming out

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Speaker 1: of the closet because they're getting more affirmation. Um, I

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Speaker 1: more people are just wanting to have their sensitivities support

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Speaker 1: it instead of being told to get a thicker skin

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Speaker 1: or there's something wrong with them. As I know, growing

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Speaker 1: physic and parents, I was told by my mother, you know,

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Speaker 1: why don't you just get a thicker skin, because I

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Speaker 1: couldn't go into shopping malls and crowded places because I'd

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Speaker 1: acre pain I didn't have before. And I didn't realize

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Speaker 1: that as an EmPATH, I was just a sponge and

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Speaker 1: travesty with traditional medicine is they don't believe in subtle

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Speaker 1: energy or the subtle energy field around the body, and

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Speaker 1: therefore cannot diagnose empaths properly. What creates impaths? What? What?

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Speaker 1: What literally creates them? Oh, that's an interesting question. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think it's temperament, and I think it's genetics, and

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Speaker 1: I also think it's karma. I think it's what we

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Speaker 1: come into this life with you now, where some babies

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Speaker 1: come in extra sensitive and they just feel everything, whereas others,

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Speaker 1: You know, sometimes what I've seen is that there can

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Speaker 1: be raised by alcoholic parents or drug addic parents, or

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Speaker 1: you know, there's abuse sometimes and so the child gets

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Speaker 1: around us and many and they're they're all over the place, George, Now,

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Speaker 1: and I wrote this book because I want to empower

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Speaker 1: Because I'm I'm an EmPATH, and I'm now on a

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Speaker 1: the ankst that I'm seeing around me. It just wouldn't

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Speaker 1: And so you know, I have to practice, you know,

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Speaker 1: really taking good care of myself and having enough alone

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Speaker 1: fearful things that are coming in, the more you feed it,

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Speaker 1: You're like feeding the beasts then, and so you know,

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Speaker 1: it's it's okay to be informed, but it's more important

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Speaker 1: to build up your own strengths. I mean, when I

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Speaker 1: special care of themselves. That the problem is with the

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Speaker 1: medical profession is that they over medicate empaths and an

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Speaker 1: emfence might come in and they'll get medication which isn't

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Speaker 1: the treatment. That's because they don't understand them, right, so

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Speaker 1: they just prescribe that's totally right. They don't get it,

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Speaker 1: pathologize them and give them medication and this and besides

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Speaker 1: so as a psychiatrists, EmPATH come to me sometimes medicated,

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Speaker 1: give them the self assessments are you an EmPATH quiz

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Speaker 1: that's in the book, and I ascertain whether or not

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Speaker 1: they are, and if they are, that changes everything, George,

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Speaker 1: because once an EmPATH is diagnosed properly, then they can

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Speaker 1: not take on other people's emotions, and they do that

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Speaker 1: all the time, and they develop empathic illnesses where literally

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Speaker 1: don't know what's happening because they don't know how to

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Speaker 1: the symptoms symptomatic of empaths um well, in terms of

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Speaker 1: just too much. I have a chapter on EmPATH and

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Speaker 1: addiction because there's so many people who are EmPATH and

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Speaker 1: many people who are recovering from addiction are empaths, and

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Speaker 1: your sensitivities without drinking, using, or you know, turning to

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Speaker 1: as an EmPATH, I am. I would not give it

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Speaker 1: become an intuitive EmPATH. And there's a chapter in the

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Speaker 1: book on intuitive empaths, people with very very highly developed

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Speaker 1: intuition that can sense and know things that other people

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Speaker 1: It's a specific sensitivity that they have, and they're telepathic

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Speaker 1: empaths empaths who can you know, read minds or mind

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Speaker 1: then their animal empaths. Animal empaths, their people have a

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Speaker 1: their lives, and even mediumship empaths where the same division

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