Anyone Super-sensitive To Emotional/environmental Energies?

[circe47]

Fellow empath checking in. I have pretty much every symptom. I have always been very, very sensitive since as long as I can remember, both emotionally and physically.

I attribute this to PTSD and a finely honed vigilance system. In order to survive violent situations, a young child needs to be on guard and becomes quite adept at reading environments and individuals. As the child grows older, the sensitivity trait becomes over developed to the point of keen psychic abilities bordering on paranormal- or so I suspect.

What is really troublesome for me is that I take on physical symptoms of others. I can honestly say that I have never been much of a sweets eater. Now that my diabetic brother is living with us, I can't get enough sugar. It's making me fat. My ex came to pick up our son about a month ago. He explained how he had recently been in the ER for congestive heart failure. Now- I have NO emotional ties to him one way or the other after he abused me for 13 years. I don't hate him....I don't love him. If anything- I feel sorry for him. This is why as soon as he walked into the house and began explaining his recent illness, I had a sharp pain in my core that didn't go away until he left. It was NOT a figment of my imagination- I literally had trouble breathing through the pain.

I was once on a commuter train and observed what must have been a 300 lb. woman glaring at a 20 lb. little girl of about six or seven years old. By watching the silent exchange of hostility v. terror (the little girl's) I KNEW that as soon as this ugly, beastly, gorilla got the tiny little girl home she was going to be on top of her.......beating the crap out of her. I was so scared and angry I had to fight to not attack the woman to save the little girl. It was uncanny how clearly I could see the future exchange that WAS going to take place. Was it just reading a non verbal exchange between mother and daughter, or was it a vision of this little girl's life?

 

[Misul]

I get similar visions and they make me so uneasy. I think part of the reason I isolate is that I can't deal with the cruelty of the world. It's so overwhelming, especially when I am licking my own wounds still.

 

[circe47]

I hear you. It's scary to see everything going on in the world today. My husband says it's always been this way- it's just more prominent due to information technology. Maybe......

I think it is more that as you said- the cruelty of the world. It's just getting worse and worse.

 

[Misul]

I think it's becoming normalized is all. People aren't thinking twice. Technology has separated us from the earth - we used to spend more energy attuned with the earth to coexist and survive. With all the convenience of today's material world, people have become extremely selfish. That's just what I think.

 

[circe47]

I concur. Funny thing is IF the $hit hits the fan and we have to get back to basics, these folks are gonna be up a creek with no practical survival skills. I imagine Kim Kardashian tryna live off the grid and off the land.......

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[maddog]

I certainly don't consider myself to be "super" sensitive to emotional energies, but am definitely very sensitive to them. I think that when one grows up in a highly dangerous and unpredictable world, it is almost inevitable that the child will become extremely aware and sensitive to the emotional energy of others, as there is strong adaptive and safety value in doing so. This allows the child at least to some extent to predict and anticipate danger and perhaps to take evasive action to avoid it where possible. Becoming deeply enmeshed in the emotions of the abuser is one of the most complicated and agonising psychological scars of early abuse in my opinion.

Thesedays I am definitely described as deeply empathic and sensitive to others' emotions. My therapist continually comments on this. Ironically, he says I am as good at reading others as anyone he's ever met... and probably the most delusionally inaccurate at assessing myself as anyone he could ever imagine. I guess all of my sensitivity goes outwards, and I'm sure that's no accident either.

Probably the only slightly extraordinary ability I have, which I hesitate to really categorise as such, is a strange innate awareness of others who have been abused or have experienced extreme suffering. On a number of occasions in my life I have just found myself drawn to certain people, and somehow intuitively knowing that they just "get it" in ways that most people don't. Without exception I have, in time, learned that my sense about them was true, and also that they felt a similar sense in rlation to me. And they aren't even necessarily people with whom I share close relationships, but merely others in my environment with whom I share some sort of unspoken understanding and bond of quiet empathy. Strangely, these feel like some of the most non-threatening and affirming relationships I have ever had.
Maddog

 

[CraftyCath]

I can truly associate with this thread gms.

I am definitely empathic. All my life I have felt others emotional pain (not the physical but I am also a RN so I can distance myself from that). I seemed to sense when something was amiss even though people tried to pretend everything was OK. If someone was upset I would be upset.

I am very intuitive; I read people incredibly well and seem to know things way before they happen. I fit into all those categories you mentioned gms except the addictive one, I don't have that trait at all. I've been told I'm a good judge of character and spotted the lies in my Brother-in-law when I first met him 20 years ago. I tried to tell my Sister-in-law about his bad treatment of me and his lies but she would not here it. Then, a couple of weeks ago I sat up in bed and told my H that something bad was going to happen to his sister, my sister-in-law, but he could not see it. It seemed from outward appearances that she was living the life of Riley but I just knew she wasn't. My H said he didn't think I was right but then we got a letter telling us that her husband had left her for someone else and he wanted her out of the house in Italy and she had to come back to the UK.

this fore-knowledge scares me and has happened to me a lot. Some Christians say I'm prophetic, others say I psychic but I'm just me and if it is a gift from God or whatever I can accept that. We have been saved from some very difficult situations because I have been 'warned' either in a dream or just a deeply intuitive feeling. It is painful when it involves others.

I do not know if it is because of my traumas as I started being traumatised at a very young age. My brother is quite intuitive but doesn't care at all how people feel. My sister doesn't have this 'gift' either and neither did my parents. As far as I know, my brother and sister never experienced any of the trauma I did so perhaps the trauma has made me more aware.

You're not alone in this gms.

 

[CraftyCath]

a strange innate awareness of others who have been abused or have experienced extreme suffering.

I have this as well maddog.

 

[Anna]

Yes. I am very sensitive. I can sense if something bad happened somewhere.

I am also very sensitive to other peoples moods. It is almost like I can feel their pain sometimes. It is like psychic empathy.