Empathic Personal Distress:

Empathic personal distress, also called dispositional empathy, is feeling discomfort or distress yourself when witnessing another’s suffering. The result is you’re unable to provide support or compassion to them because you’re overly focused on your own negative emotions and distress. The most common tendency is to withdraw, but others include acting passive aggressively, belittling, being defensive, arguing, manipulating.