so that could be why im always emotionally and physically drained all the time..? even going to school for an hour and standing in a crowd gets me so drained and depressed...
I know how you feel. I've spent a lifetime living with it. The best thing I can say is try to avoid crowds. If you must be in one. Put yourself in the back or on the side. Don't let people huddle around you. Imagine your feet rooted into the ground to soak up it's strength. Breath out the bad energy. Then make a shield around your body to deflect others energy. If I don't do this I will get over loaded and have terrible stomach pains and need to find a bathroom. ASAP
This seems to help me, but takes a lot of energy to maintain it.
Hope this helps some :)
I think perhaps one of the most important things to realize is that the gift of empathy is not a solitary one. Everyone has the gift of empathy, with the possible exception of sociopaths.
What this means is that you are not alone. And that, in itself, presents a potent comfort in the face of how overwhelming such a thing can be.
The second thing for you to realize is that part of the intensity of the emotions you are picking up upon is derived from your youth. At your age, hormones are going nuts. This tends to result in teenagers feeling things quite intensely for themselves. Everything becomes a passion.
As a result, as you perceive the emotional state of others you, in turn, feel it quite strongly.
This will pass. And in the end you'll be stronger for it.
Blocking it out only results in the repression of what you feel, and what you know. Repressing anything like this causes further emotional trauma down the road.
I wear an amethyst ring, the crystal helps filter the flow of it. So now your able to learn to separate those feeling from your own and if your tired,because I know its draining,it can help filter it down, because I'm sure it can get loud... And always feel free to tell something to back away, or avoid touching all the time..That's an easy way to absorb someones feelings.. Hope that helped... Don't be afraid either...
You sound a lot like me.. I found myself hiding from the world and that is no way to live. I have done so much good with this gift and while a lot of times it does feel like a curse, you have to remember that you have this gift for a reason. It was given to you because you ARE strong enough to handle it and you will make a difference.
My message got cut off, but I did want to leave you with this one trick that along with shielding will help you a great deal.
When you are feeling overwhelmed, stop and focus on something that is special to you, like your favorite color....symbol...flower..animal..etc. keep focusing on it until you feel only your own energy and everything else falls away. You can keep that image in your head as you go about your day to go back to quickly if needed. Or if you feel the need to re-shield then do so after you have centered yourself.
The key to this is to recognize the signs of becoming overwhelmed before you actually do become overwhelmed to the point of sickness or in my case being rendered unconscious. For me, my ears start ringing..then my chest gets tight..and well, you know what comes next. Once you can recognize the signs, you need to center yourself right when it begins because we both know that if it gets to the point of illness, it's basically time to leave. It's very hard to recover from that point.
With practice, you can live a wonderful life, helping and healing people if you choose to, while being happy and healthy yourself. :)
(Sorry if this is a late responce)
I used to feel others emotions all the time but now I have figured out to control it and kind of turn it on and off for the most part. Now I can still sence how they feel but can't actually feel it myself unless I want to
reading all of this is great! I'm an empath too, and I don't find many around here. For me, I just have to focus it. I've been working on just focusing on one person, and then moving onto another, and then another. it sort of helps differentiate all the emotions, you know?
