This Girl is Able to Feel Other People's Pain | Chicago Med | MD TV 

Not only has she been dealing with so much pain from others, but her mom has been treating her so badly because of it. I felt so disgusted at the beginning of the clip

I'm so glad that the mom was able to project her sadness, regret, and understanding in the last few moments of that clip. To let her daughter know that she was on her side in this.

I’m just glad the mom ended up actually caring and putting her daughter first in the end.

I feel so bad for this poor girl. She's so young and she's feeling all this pain around her everyday in the most literal sense and because it's rare and not as widely known, almost everyone, including her mother and herself, think that she's either crazy or bad when she is neither. She was in pain, she didn't know why, and she got all the blame for it. To all the people who think I'm confusing acting with real life, I'm not. I'm not talking about the actress, I'm talking about the character. Just so you understand.

I swear to god if in this clip they say it’s mirror mirror synesthesia, I will blow with excitement; I have been studying synesthesia for months.

Living with this condition must be terrible, my sympathies to everyone who deals with it.

I just realized how difficult a condition like this could make having healthy arguments with loved ones. Imagine Ariel, perhaps a little older, having a lovers' spat with her boyfriend. Regardless of who's more at fault, she's going to be feeling her boyfriend's anger on top of whatever anger of her own she may be feeling. So when she reaches the point where she might otherwise start cooling down and becoming more conciliatory, unless the boyfriend reaches that point at the same time, her condition may just turn her boyfriend's remaining anger into a positive feedback loop. She mirrors his anger, causing her to act angrily, which only pisses him off more, and so on. Unless she's sufficiently adept at the coping techniques, she may not be able to help escalating the situation even when she actually wishes she could de-escalate it.

At least the mom recognized her mistakes and wanted to do better

I am diagnosed with mirror-touch synesthesia, and I find it rather funny how extremely exaggerated it is portrayed here, at least compared to my cases and the ones I know. In the cases I know it's much more subtle but has a big impact on our life. It's not always bad; we tend to be very good listeners, though for example most of us would rather go broke a thousand times than be doctors, because of the amount of pain we would have to endure. One specific thing I've realized, for example, is how I'm often uncomfortable in circus performances since watching the effort of the acrobatics makes me terribly sore.

This is fascinating. I never even heard of this condition. I can see the pros and cons of having a condition such as this. The human brain. Always evolving for the selected few.

Idk how medically legit this is but I’m glad the point was the mother having more empathy for her daughter

For anyone who has this in real life, i hope you stay far away from trauma centers, people with drug addictions, high crime areas, etc. I cannot even imagine the things youd feel..

I can often tell when someone I'm near is in pain and have been able to feel a few times when when someone had intense emotion. It's mainly the feel sensation like a tingling numbness in that certain area that's ailing someone. I usually can tell when my dad's knee is giving him issues, for example, because I can feel it too or say someone is complaining about their arm hurting, I can point out the exact area on myself.

Dang. Something that forces her mother to be a better person so her daughter can have a better life. On one level, I do feel bad for the girl, having to feel all that pain around her and am thankful for the doctor who helped her out. On the other hand...that mom needed the reminder.

the little girls here on med and in p.d. are such great actresses, i dont know how many times i have cried while watching clips from this series today, just found this series couple hours ago and currently binge watching 😭👏💓

This condition makes the person feel extreme empathy.

This is one of my favourite episodes of the show. You never want to see a young person have a mental illness, it’s worse when it’s your own child.

The human brain is such a complicated and interesting puzzle. Such an unusual condition. So fascinating!

If Ariel has mirror-touch synesthesia (he slaps his left cheek she feels it on her right cheek; his left knee hurts so her right knee hurts) then how come the left side of her forehead hurt same side as her mother's?

The young actress is amazing.

To be honest, it is incredibly sad to see people like the girl with the ability to feel others pain not getting enough respect. To all those who are watching this, try to understand what others are going through and feel their pain and trust me, you will be going to places!

I always wondered what was wrong with me because I felt more deeply than other people. I could see it on their faces and feel it in my heart. I've carried out my entire life. Maybe not to this degree but I'm so glad that they're showing this. I am not crazy after all

I hate that the mom walked off to take a call while her daughter is in pain

Empaths get the happiness pleasure other people are having too

The force is strong with this one.

I remember when a condition like this was only believed if you were superstitious enough. Now its finally crossing over into believable science. It's crazy how much of this I taught myself at a young age to protect myself from the same thing, but instead of the new name "mirror-touch synesthesia" it was just called empathic psychic ability.

Thus goes to show you how we're all connected and some are more sensitive than others. Yes, this is a physical condition but it's also spiritual as well being able to feel others emotions and physical sensations around you.

I feel like I’ve always had this and always wondered if it was real! Had so many symptoms and issues around people’s pain or feelings

I think it’s kind of cool how they cover rare conditions in these shows. I don’t care for them because I think they spend too much time on the characters’ interpersonal drama.

I’ve never heard of this, you learn something new everyday folks!

there is something this episode didn't get right about the condition "Mirror-touch synesthesia". The stimulus to this condition must be seen by the patient. The person with this condition has to actually see someone else getting hurt to then feel the same pain. The girl in the video with this condition wouldn't have known the doctors knee hurt and then didn't hurt after he took aleve. In Mirror-touch synesthesia, whatever is causing the patient to feel the pain of another person has to be witnessed/seen. In order for this girl to feel the doctor's knee pain, she would have had to have been psychic...

kinda annoyed she didnt tell the mom to try therapy for herself instead of saying something that leads the mind to interpretation. it sounds more like shes saying fake a smile and shell be fine

I saw in clinic where an 11 yr old sister had all the hyperemesis of her 18 yr old sister who was pregnant. The 18 yr old had the low hgb but the younger sister had all the tiredness. Also I have seen when a person has someone else carry their pain it does not mean their physical problem is gone. Pain is the bodies way of telling a person something is wrong. I saw someone send their pain somewhere else and they ended up with a worse problem, because they needed to change their behavior and did not.

Based on Dr Charles's assessment and what she told him. I feel like she's a number of different people besides herself, she's got some power that she is able to understand what people are going through.

You can see the guilt on the mother's face

My mom was like this when I went to school. Always put work before anything else

3:42 -- Wow, whoever in "plastics" patched up her cuts did an AMAZING job! (Compare with 0:11.)

Wow, that takes empathy to an entirely new level, I can’t imagine! I’ve got to say, this channel and recap videos for movies are the best way to consume media 😂❤

No wonder she doesn't like school. Its a breeding ground of stress and uncontrollable emotions.

My own mirror neurons are more ‘active’ than the average person’s. I don’t experience anything as severe as the character in this episode, but I do have similar, if much lighter symptoms. It’s more like dull aches, like headaches, ect. It’s really cool that it’s being represented in media!! This sort of this is usually caused by CPTSD for those who are curious.

It’s honestly kinda sad that the people who have this, can’t watch any horror movies.

imagine watching a horror movie with this condition

if someone was in labor..oh boy

I will say I'm glad this is being spoken about. I heard about it and thought it was really interesting and wanted to learn more about it.

Wow, when this starts its like being in room with my own mother, only with more warmth and caring...

If you are an empath, you feel all emotion and pain around you. It touches every emotion. It is not a physical illness. Its a soul gift.l

I don't have this form of synesthesia, but I do have Texture-Scent Projective Synesthesia, which means that any texture I feel puts a scent in my nose as if I were actually smelling it. As a kid, I would always tell my parents that I hated the smell of cereal, of all cereal, but they would always tell me "They all smell different, what do you mean?" It took me years to figure out that I just experienced things others didn't, and while now I have copping mechanisms to not have it constantly flooding my nose, it also took a while for me to smell what is actually there. Synesthesia is a relatively recent discovery, so it is still taking a while to understand.

Better late than never for Mom

I have this! So glad it is being talked about

I always got made fun of in class whenever I told my classmates that I felt like the color green had like a metallic-iron taste, where as purple was like smooth and creamy. my friends thought I was high, seeing as though I could see colors whenever I heard numbers. or if someone sang the alphabet, I'd give them personalities. we may not know it, but we all have a little bit of synesthesia in ourselves. for example, between the words "bouba" and "kiki", which word would describe a hard, sharp object? it would make sense that "kiki" would be it, right? we associate the sharp points of the letters with our imaginary shape to make it a visual object. growing up, I always thought that numbers had different personalities. like the number 7 is a cool, laid-back guy with a drink in his hand, whereas number 3 is a single, independent woman who's been working nonstop at her job. although it's not mirror touch synesthesia, I'm proud that I have this ability. call me crazy for thinking colors have scents and numbers have genders, but it's how I've associated with the world. there's a lot of RU-vid videos on synesthesia, but my personal favorite is the woman that plays violin in accordance to colors. you can see what colors she hears while she plays, it's incredible. or if you wanna go way back to childhood, watch the part in ratatouille where remy and his brother are eating cheese and grapes at the same time. you'll figure out where that's going hehe. any fellow synesthetes out there too? gimmie a hand raise!🤚🏼

This is really good keep up the good content

The ultimate empath.

This is like Life is Strange: True Colors where she can feel everyone’s emotions

Joel Salinas wrote a book about his life with Mirror Touch Synesthesia. I recommend it highly. He decided to become a doctor in order to help people 💜

The brain is truly one of the most complicated things in the universe

Seeing the end is so nice. She looks a little more relaxed with her mom there holding her.

This reminds me of my Misophonia. My mom thought it was all in my head. She thought I was faking it.

I can pick up on emotions of others when I was younger I could feel people's pain

That man is so sweet 😊

This clip has been uploaded so many times on the Chicago channel.

Oh no! This is so sad but cute at the same time

This one hell of a ride.

I get a pain in my ass around irritating people, this explains a lot

How is that even possible I’m so shocked.

That's what happens when you have cptsd as a child in foster care and you're adopted and you're never made to feel safe you never made to feel like you are wanted or accepted or appreciated you feel so many things and then you become an empath of those around you you feel everybody's emotions at a higher level than other people could ever understand and it causes you grief it causes pain and suffering but you endure it because you'd rather feel other people's emotions then grow attached to them because it's safer for you because the emotions you want to feel you can't feel because you're numb to the world after everything you've been put through

And now adding this to my "To add to writing" list.

She's a real empath

there is no way this is how this disorder works

oh my bless her heart

Even in children without this disorder, having a constantly anxious parent isn't good.

I love this I watch it all the time

She’s an empath

I never knew this condition existed

When I was young 12 or 13 I would hear someone call my name or someone yelling help. There would be nobody around, years later I told a therapist about it. She informed me it's one of the first signs of Sophronia and it almost never stops She told me I was really lucky it went away. People wonder way I have such a grateful attitude about life I know just how lucky I truly am. I'm more grateful for the things I don't have than the things I do.

I have this... V/K Synesthesia and A/K Synesthesia... I take on the emotions and feelings of others... Turns out it's a really good thing to help others to heal emotionally... but it's a nightmare to deal with until you #1 Learn what is happening. #2 Learn how to Ground yourself emotionally. This is a life saver... I just take on the emotions of others around me... I had to really learn the difference between others emotions and mine! People who are in need will just walk up to me in public and start pouring their hearts out to me about what they are going through emotionally...

I feel everybody emotions a lot.

I love watching these vids I always cry😢❤

3:46 Mirror touch synesthesia is a condition that causes a person to feel the sensations of being touched on the opposite side or part of their body when they see another person being touched. While there aren't yet specific diagnostic criteria, doctors can treat the condition as a sensory processing disorder.

I'm grateful this clip is now on RU-vid instead of Facebook, where they either have loud music, a giant logo, or high pitched voices, making it nearly unwatchable

*You can lead a horse to water but you cant make is gaze at its own reflection* .... WOW haven't heard that one, i like this version, definitely resonates a lot more in my personal life (hi mum talking bout you sorry)

In South Korean history there were people known as 'human talisman' that could channel and take the pain/illnesses/curses from others.

I’m curious to know if people with this condition feel pain on like graphic movies or shows. Or is it just in person?

I have sight touch synesthesia myself (aka same side of the body not mirrored) and, even though it’s exaggerated here, I love that it’s being talked about.

This reminds me of that one episode in charmed when prue became an empath

Doctor: I don’t think you can get schizophrenia at 14 11 year old me: you sure about that

She can feel there pain but she cant take it away

The fact that her mother is doing the freaking talking for her. Even when the doctor asks Ariel for her name. What the actual frick.

I see this being pretty useful in the field of psychological counseling; being able to subtly feel the client's emotional state could help to find better methods based on how they handle said emotions

YOO I DIDNT HAVE MY VOLUME UP THE WHOLE TIME AND I KNOW THATS DOCTOR CHARLESSSSSSSSS

If I felt the pain of everyone I probably would of been giving them hugs

I call it my bizarre gift but for some reason I can sense pregnancy in other women, can detect the sex of their babies and usually accurately predict the date the baby will be born. I have no clue how or why and before any pregnant women start sending me questions, either you need to have a personal connection to me or actually be in my presence for me to be able to get a read from you. Ironically, I was unable to have children of my own though.

This girl took the empathy too far away

Poor girl😢

she is an EMPATH..

Hey ive been waiting for this clip!

Girls a literal empath! (No offense ment to anyone with this condition, I just saw some parallels)

I discovered I have synesthesia while reading a novel with one of the characters describing her synesthesia. Mine is with numbers. How I see numbers, or how I visualize a calendar, days of the week, etc. It’s the craziest thing, and my specific one is likely the least harmful. Some people can taste music. Some see each letter of the alphabet a different color.

Woah cool so she’s like a psychic!

Synesthesia can cause empathic like situations? Suddenly things make so much more sense. I thought I just got the fun synesthesia with seeing music.

My shield for social anxiety is a clear, glass bell with shots of gold and white throughout it. There's a door so I can get out. The door is locked from the inside and I am the only one who can open it. Doesn't always work but if it can get me through going out in public, that's a win.