Question

Difference between empathy and sympathy and compassion

Answer 1

Compassion: A feeling of wanting to help someone who is suffering.                Sympathy: the Natural feeling that you care for another and can emotionally connect with their suffering.                                                                                  Empathy: Not a feeling but a skill that can be learned, to cognitively understand another's perspective and therefore the resulting emotions the person must be experiencing. 

Answer 2

Compassion is the feeling of wanting to help others in need.
Sympathy is feeling bad for someone in a bad situation or wanting to help those going through pain.
Empathy is being able to understand our relate to someone's situation, which makes you want to or capable of helping them.