Hey, empaths have a community too.
Lets see what we've got here...
Help please
I'm wondering, are empaths are more likely to go through panic attacks after being accused of something that they are not or being talked about behind their backs in a negative way (even though it happened a couple of years ago or so)? Does it effect you in wanting to have more friends in the future?
I just started a new job on June 16th, and there is someone there that I would love to become friends with, but I can't help but go through these panic spells that I might be making someone feeling nervous and wondering if it has to do with being accused of something that I'm not (this happened when I was in college a few years ago.. just someone talking bad about me behind my back).
I'm hoping that this co-worker and I become friends in time.
How to know....
Hello Any Reader,
I am pretty sure I know how I got to be an empath and I am relieved to see here a community that does not view sensitive types with suspicion. I struggle with the wish to tell my life story because it has been harsh but beautiful and the weight of my life history alone is often too much for me to bear. How can anyone know IF they should discuss, or if they should follow on the plans of others to maintain secrecy and also deny the accompanying empath experience which is a smaller aspect of my larger history? I really want to come out at large, and in my painting work as an artist what it has been like for me as a very unusual person because I feel it would help me when the weight of the experience is too much- but I fear the idea of being further outcast. I know others who have lived my kind of experience might be aided- Yet, I am careful about helping people. Peoples help bestowed upon me has not always been right because they don't know what it is really like-
Already, I feel some sort of benefit in reading and writing here at this site, because I am now at least framing up my issue better....how to know how much to tell....who can understand....what my risks and fears are.
It seems to me, I have had a pretty beautiful hand dealt to me in life, but one that others were not comfortable with. This made me uncomfortable, and well? It still does apparently. I recognize my life story would make many uncomfortable, but I also know there are some circles of existence that recognize and even honor people like myself, but they don't tend to be my family, nor the average citizen. What makes me feel uncomfortable is the judgement others have, that is unnecessary, inaccurate and ostracizing COMBINED with the sadness and shame I endure under the reality- This gives me great stress, and I mentioned in another post, wanting to find help for managing stress.
The news
I have a love/hate relationship with the news. I feel a sense of obligation to be educated about my world because I am living here after all. Sometimes though I stumble across stories so sad I can't stop myself from crying. I just read an article about starving, poor children with photos of 6 year olds working in fields instead of enjoying their youth and going to school. I try my best to avoid reading stories like these but they seem to be everywhere. How do you deal with these kinds of sad stories in the news? I like to stay informed but I try to filter what I read so I don't end up bawling like I did this morning.
Seems like a fun place.
The replies are pretty much enabling it further with back pat bandages instead of real answers, with replies like:
Reply by Pharrah on June 24, 2014 at 3:56pm
Yes, I did mention Facebook, I figured out I could go to each friend's page and just "unfollow" the friends that propitiate such things. This works well because their post no longer shows up on my stream and I don't have to unfriend them either.
Reply by inlanddan on Saturday
I really "know" this is what is best. Please if you do try it let me know the outcome of this. I am sending all the positive energy to you for this. I can feel how important it is to you.
Dan : )
You're quite condescending in this thread. That surprises me.
Am I an empath? Yes, I believe I am but there are factors for this. My personality type is INFJ and I am also HSP.
I don't view it in the same New Age/psychic/healing way but I do believe there is some untapped potential I could be harnessing.
I don't believe in that kind of stuff other than fun and games. Like horoscopes or getting your fortune told. People believe it because they want to think they are special. But like intelligence and a sense of humor, we can't ALL be magically special.
IMHO.
Not to upset Ana or anything.
High sensitivity. This is a paper from a med journal I was reading the other day on the subject: http://www.academia.edu/402642/The_Highly_Sensitive_Person_Stress_and_Physical_Symptom_Reports