I’ve recently begun seeing a therapist again now that I have health insurance, and my first ten sessions are covered as a courtesy from my company. After the first session I was redirected to my now therapist.

This morning we had a check in and session on the phone, and she told me the following:

“From what I hear about you and your relationship and getting to know you, I would deign to say you don’t suffer from a personality disorder - a lot of them are in denial even after diagnosis, and you’re open. I believe there are a lot of misdiagnoses like this, I think you’re what would be colloquially referred to as an “empath”. Yes, that term faces a lot of stigma, so maybe there’s a better clinical term we can use, like highly sensitive individual, but my point still is, you’re trapped in an empathic-narcissistic relationship at the moment. I’m not the one to tell people to break up or stay together. You do the work on your own. But I see this case more often than you’d expect”

Thoughts? I’ve always been shy to term empath due to stigma, not wanting to seen as a “woo woo” type (I have plenty of friends into stuff like that it’s just not me as a person), etc.