Oversensitive? empath? claircognizant? or just plain crazy?

Question

I think I may be an empath. Since I could remember, I always recall people, regardless of age, telling me very personal things about themselves, within the first few moments of meeting me. I have heard countless life stories in my lifetime, often by complete strangers on the bus, or co-workers in the field. It doesn't matter where, or who, but people, especially those who find it difficult to open up to anyone, have always felt they could confide in me. They always say they feel 'comfortable' with me.

In the last couple years, I noticed I started become more attune to my surroundings, and the people in them. Sometimes, I walk into a room, and I just 'know'. I just know how people are feeling, what they are thinking, I could pinpoint their greatest insecurities and weaknesses easily, and from there determine their personality traits and their behaviours. I can tell, or feel, if they are trustworthy. Deeply in love. Kind. Closed. Angry. Sad. Lonely.

I used to use my ability to try and help people, because, I find it so difficult to ignore something like this, especially when these feelings get stronger and stronger as I get older, and now they're getting harder to block out.

If someone is depressed, lonely or in need in anyway, I can feel it, and I can't stop it from surrounding me when I am around them.

Okay I'm going on and on, but I'm sure a great many of you already know what I'm talking about.

I just wonder, Are there any other people out there that feel the same way I do? Sometimes I just wonder if I'm just a good cold reader or if I have an actual ability - how can you tell the difference really?

What are others experiences with these feelings? and how do people deal with it?

Sometimes I feel like I'm going a little crazy because I get so overwhelmed by all of these foreign emotions and feelings I get when I am around others. Drained almost..

What do I do? how do I deal with this?

Answer 1

Please disregard the answer above me, it seems Y!A is full of nothing skeptical haters these days. Well I just recently found out, 5 months ago, that being an Empath would be the explanation as to why I've always known I was different from other kids in elementary school, or even wrote to my friend in class one day in middle school that I was feeling an intense urge to cry and that they weren't my emotions. It came as a shock to me that the majority of the things I said and felt were all written out by other people who were/claim to be Empaths and medical sites on it, this being BEFORE I knew it even existed.

Well I most certainly can't lie and say it isn't overwhelming, I felt like an absolute freak in the beginning and there were periods were I felt like I was going insane and really  just wanted it all to go away. I think that after a short period of time though I must have found a way to tune it out since I don't get as compelled by the feelings anymore but I still can easily read someone if I choose. How I did it i'm not sure, but I will say Empathy isn't the only thing I have I think I'm some mix breed mutt or something, in lack of a better description.

I'm not sure if I'm alone with this but its like I know other things oddly. Some little things that mean absolutly nothing others sort of come as a shock to me. For say I knew the exact time my mom was going to call, I know when I'm going to get a text, and one saturday out of nowhere I told my friend that I wanted to jump off a building and the next day on the news a model had commited suicide off a building in NY that saturday. I may be alone in that so sorry if it was misleading and confusing to you.

Well I'll end my rant there and I hope it slightly helped and your confusion and now you know you most certainly are not the only one, trust me I've met many.

Answer 2

You're taking in people's projections and are apparently very open to them. We don't really have proof that people are feeling the exact things you assume, since you can't question all of them about it. But there is proof that you are feeling a lot of stuff that is not about yourself or your own emotional state. That is taking in projections. The way to deal with this is to develop emotional boundaries that allow you to be in "compassionate observer" mode rather than "I am a container" mode. This  level of detachment allows you to deflect their projections instead of taking them in.

Update: The things you describe could be done by me as well. It's not that difficult to gauge what people want and don't want you to do. This has nothing to do with sociopathy. It's about projections that you are volunteering to contain for people.

Answer 3

I believe that you are pitching a T.V. show and I'm sorry to say that's been done before- BUT if you were a transvestite streetwalker alien siamese twin cyborg rapping jamacain cop from Neptune... Well then maybe there is a place for your angle on prime-time t.v......

Answer 4

my sister claims shes like that, i think you/my sister just have very powerful judgement or maybe u were sent by god to do a minour thing in this world (can be in my faith) but anyway or maybe you can just judge people real well?

Answer 5

You need to develop a way to tune it out. Tuning pot is possible with practice. Does music in your ears help?

Have your aura examined it is probably different to other people's auras. You could try to develop this special gift, maybe do readings for people. Go to mind/ body/ spirit festival for contacts. Be careful because there are many people faking it but with your ability you should be able to detect the genuine ones. Good luck