Empathy is Key at Lake Behavioral Hospital

Empathy is life changing. Even more, empathy and empathic behaviors are as life-changing for the giver as they are for the receiver.

Empathy is the ability to recognize and share the feelings of another person. It is walking in someone else’s shoes. Empathy is the deepest possible understanding and acknowledgement of how someone is feeling and experiencing a moment in time. There can be no judgment. There can be no hurried response. There can only be compassion.

Compassion is empathy put into play; it is the action element of empathy.

At Lake Behavioral Hospital, empathy is our key to our patients finding health. Our daily philosophy of care means that patient experience comes first. Our goal is to serve our patients with gratitude. To do this, we need to build empathy bridges between ourselves and our patients — to directly engage and identify with what it means to be a person living with mental illness.

At Lake Behavioral Hospital, we want to serve adults and adolescents with the most caring perspective; helping them heal and then leave our programs more connected, more connecting, and certainly, more empathic.