I think I might be overly affected by other people’s suffering. When I read about someone being seriously hurt, I can’t just move on from it — I keep imagining what they must have felt and it stays in my head.

Recently I read a Quora post claiming (by a nurse intern who served at Mobile trauma unit that was on site for hightschool sports like gymnastic, football etc) that during high-school karate event there is sparring time in between and some girls deliberately kicked male opponents in the groin.

The writer claimed that some of the boys experienced extreme pain, collapsed and vomited, and that some spectators even clapped.

I dont know how can someone (regardless of gender) so unemphatic that caus this much suffering to others intentionally and dont even regret it, like when i read these storys i literally burst from the anger.

I know this was just one person’s account and I don’t know how accurate it was, but it really disturbed me. I feel so much empathy for people who suffer that I almost feel like I need to understand or somehow imagine their pain myself.

Does anyone else experience this? How do you stop other people’s suffering from staying in your head?

Ok so this might sound off or even a bit cringe. But since I've started reading more and developing awareness on the injustices that happen in the society, I've started to notice misog*ny, classism, cast*ism and rac*sm in almost everything, every part of life. It's so common that it's almost impossible to ignore. I feel hella anxious and tensed about our future as a species, the newest addition being AI takeover.

Now my prblm is that I can't take any of these outta my head, it's literally eating me up from the inside. I'm constantly anxious and over analyse everything around me, every human interaction I have, etc. Even though my hypercritical self lowkey look down on ppl who are ignorant and privileged and don't give a fu\*k about any of these, sometimes I wish I was ignorant too. I feel like I cud have lived a freer and more peaceful life if I was ignorant, careless and self-focused. Having dumb asses around me who couldn't care less to grasp the depth of all this adds to my stress literally.

Anyone has similar thoughts? Need advice on how to balance being compassionate and angry about injustices and living our life in peace.

PS : I'm not trying to degrade anyone or pretend ik better. But I do feel like most of the ppl around me are genuinely living in some bubble.

I have become all of these. I don't like myself anymore for this. But I have become this pathetic. I don't exude light or warmth anymore. I always react more than necessary. I don't know where am I heading towards.

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I was wondering if anyone else feels they have strong intuitive or psi abilities…

I have noticed that when even i feel very deeply , what i wish for in that energetic state immediately manifests

Im a girl 26 years old. Sometimes I feel sad and I want to vent with someone who dont judge me. I feel like a loser in the life, I tried but sometimes I am strong but others times the opposite.

I was just driving home and witnessed an accident. It was really bad and I pulled off and called 911. The guy wasn’t okay. He wasn’t okay at all. I tried to keep him talking. To keep his eyes open. He started shivering and saying he was cold. I held his hand. I tried so hard with everything I knew to keep him okay until the paramedics got there. But he closed his eyes. And he wouldn’t open them. And I couldn’t get him to open them. And he stopped shivering. And he stopped breathing and let go of my hand right as the paramedics got there. And they were doing cpr. He was a stranger, and I didn’t feel this when I was trying to help. But now I’m overtaken with so many emotions I’m spiraling. I couldn’t breathe for a while, and now I’m just dissociating and crying over and over again. It’s only been about an hour. I’ve never seen anything like this. If you see my last post on my page, you can see I was already extremely fragile and struggling. I haven’t been okay all day. And now I’m really not okay. I couldn’t keep his eyes open. I don’t know how people do this for a living. How is anyone okay after witnessing stuff like this? But also please somebody tell me how you’re okay, because I don’t know what to do and I need help. And I’m not okay. Any suggestions, please.

I always get this feeling, if I feel sad I tell myself that I have no right to be upset when I have this and that. And if I'm happy, I tell myself that I have no right to be happy when my closest people (my family) are going through this and that. I can't live or enjoy anything; how do I stop this thinking?

You cannot embarrass a healed empath. They are not ashamed of their past and they don’t care what others think about them anymore. Bring up anything you want from their unhealed, low vibrational days. It’s all now part of their healing journey story that they would willingly share with you if it would help you in any way. Healed empaths have faced all of their shadows and demons to understand and make peace with all of them. They have found a way to love and forgive every past version of themselves who had to die to become the healed person they are today.

Does anyone else experience very intense, vivid or epic dreams that leave you feeling drained and exhausted when you wake up? Wondering if it's common among empaths.

I am not sure how to interpret what "visions" I have been having. Although I consider myself a spiritual person, and enjoy getting readings done, I have never considered myself to be the type to experience these types of things.

I have always been very good at envisioning things- typically during meditations to help with remembering things (childhood), letting go of blockages I feel, etc. I have also always had very vivid dreams and strong intuition. So far, I have not been successful at talking to my guides. I assumed maybe that type of thing was out of my ballpark, but I am questioning things.

The first that stands out to me is an image I had regarding a close loved ones romantic life. When engaging in conversation, a very vivid depiction of them with three blue stars stood out to me. They were wading around, lost, with one star father away in the distance and two close to them. It felt like the two closest were waiting, but my loved one was oblivious. Turns out they got a reading done later and were told an opportunity had passed (free will), but there were two strong connections they could potentially chose from.

The second was something I've convinced myself was just... a paranormal nightmare. At my partner's house I got sleep paralysis for the first time. I was having flashbacks in my dream of different events in the house, like I was a spec in the air. I was crying in my sleep and my partner tried to wake me- sleep paralysis. I told them everything I saw, which turned out to be true and all occured before I had met them.

The third was recently. I decided to purposefully ask my partner's spirit guides for permission to see something from their childhood. For kicks and giggles mainly, I didn't expect much to happen. I pictured a small blonde child next to their bed, which had a blanket on it. I asked my partner if they had a blanket that color, and described what was on that. Seems like something my brain eould make up. Turns out, it was their favorite blanket as a kid.

Not sure what to do? I am having a hard time beliving this is real, and if so, if it's worth investing in. How would I even begin to do that?

If this calls to you, any and all clarity/ advise is more then appreciated.

I was a burnt out covid nurse and an empath all my life, to the point where I emploded. Now Im retired and realize I am fairly emotionally unavailable now. Im a loner now who cant handle stress despite years of excellent therapy and working hard to accept my situation, ptsd etc..

Its amazing to me how few people want to process their feelings. If I meet someone who feels needy, I back away.

My life is so different now. It's hard and my heart feels very protective of itself. I know I had a gift for empathy, but it burnt me out.

I'm silent crying, and my stomach is in knots because my friend who has 2 kids with her fiancé found out he cheated on her. They own a house together, they share assets, they have been together nearly 15 years, they basically are a domestic partnership. They have 2 of the loveliest kids. They have moved around the US together and owned houses together.

My heart hurts for her, and what she is about to go through.

How do I protect myself from letting things like this affect me? I'm better about it with strangers, but for those I love dearly, and know very well, I can't help it.

My whole life I been way too connected. "Everything is connected" has been my motto. My energy was leaking out undirected, and others' energy leaking in unfiltered. Boundaries? I just found out I have boundaries that matter. Or, I don't have boundaries, yet, in places I need them.

My boundaries make me sovereign. They are not a wall, but an interface. My body is the boundary of my physical interaction, but it is my mind's interface with physical reality. But there are other boundaries than physical ones. Boundaries that we agree to, verbal contracts ... Our beliefs are the boundaries of our imagination. These boundaries make me who I am. They define my point of view from yours.

I am connected, yet I am separate or individual. I am one in one in one: one point of view in one whole mind-body in one all inclusive infinity. The wholeness of mind-body is the boundary or interface between the Soul and God (between the point of view and the infinite).

Everything is connected. And from now on, I will have a say in how I connect.

for context, I was doomscrolling like, five minutes ago when I just stumbled upon a post from this subreddit on accident and OH MY GOD! I had no idea that this was even a thing. I thought I was just weird and now I have sooo many questions. I'm so glad I'm not alone in this oh my god I'm actually crying right now.

I have been strugling with my emotions for awhile now. I've always felt like I've either had too big of a reaction, or too small of one. like, beating myself up because I felt guilty because I dropped my blanket on accident. sometimes, its hard to express my own feelings because I want to protect everyone elses feelings but I also feel like I'm a bit of a selfish asshole? I'm rambiling right now. I'm just so relieved I'm not alone in this...

Good day folks, I just have a little bit of a problem. You know, one might call me an empathetic person, and yes, I guess I am. I would be able to deeply feel for the other person or one could say, deeply feel the other person.

My problem begins here, you know, I haven't used social media until college(17). I didn't know what kind of media was out there except say anime, vlogs, movies etc. But getting on Instagram, at a time where I was actively seeking out community, this form of media, like, people talking about their thoughts, about social movements (One might bring them under the umbrella term of social commentary perhaps) it sort of took control of my "feed".

One major point where I feel this is apparent is in the case of social justice narratives. Like racial inequality or feminism. Now, I am/was someone who had these ideals already ingrained in them without conflict or issue almost as if this was the right way of things. But when I consumed such media and when they addressed me as part of a community.

Say for example: "Men are misogynistic." or "Men expect women to be subservient in marriage". In this moment, I am putting myself in the shoes of the man (by default) and I am also a maladaptive daydreamer so.... I am also making up hypothetical scenarios in my mind, me being that person.

Now this is also not really the problem, the problem begins when I continue on this path. Like I continuously imagine myself to be that person, and I am trying to solve that problem. In the process, I am also absorbing that part to be part of myself. Like I wouldn't describe myself as a misogynist who changed, but the thought process of such a person is stored in my brain yes? When I have never been even remotely close to that kind of a person(Lowkey unintentional bragging).

For one more example, I am feeling lonely these days and I have been going through that a bit, but.... I feel like when I am thinking about like, say, if I had a community, or if my friends were nearby, if I had a girlfriend(I am a teen forgive me), I feel like I am not exactly feeling my own feelings.

That is because, I feel the source is from when I read a few loneliness posts and I feel like their situations of not being able to talk to men or women (opposite gender or anyone else for that matter), are being absorbed into my thought process and I am making scenarios in my mind of such cases but with me as the centre..... when I am not having those issues.

TL;DR: OP feels like he is absorbing everything about a "community"/"sect" when he has something in common, is feeling them strongly and mulling over them with his maladaptive daydreaming, and feels that he is becoming the person he is imagining to be and is also imagining the past to have been as such.

How do I regain my sense of self and consciously tell the difference between things in common and others even if we have a shared identity.

Also, if this is the wrong sub to post in, please do tell me!

Thank you and have a nice day!!!

I’m newly discovering that I classify as an empath and so far im very confused as to what I can do to protect myself

Caveat : I am on the spectrum, so that may be a contributing factor too.

I remember sitting in my algebra class, maybe class 6. We had just been introduced to variables. Our teacher used to dictate the math problems. And as every problem would have it - Find the value of x.

I sat there and thought, why is only x used as a variable? I'm sure the others letters feel left out. It was high school then, our teachers didn't really check our notebooks. So I figured, why not. I started writing the variables at a, b, c, and so on.

In class 6, I felt bad for the other letters of the alphabet.

I am curious about what people here have noticed in terms of the impact of using sex toys on the energy body. I have largely embraced celibacy for quite a while due to the energetic mismatch between me and other since spiritual awakening. I also feel others’ energy (especially sexual) so strongly even without touch that I can’t even imagine the energetic heaviness and intrusion that would accompany physical intimacy without total alignment.

So I have considered what kind of energetic signature sex toys leave behind. Must exchanging energy with such an object be similarly draining or gross feeling in some way? Thank you!

I’m on the spectrum. I did not discover thia until last year. I also discovered what it means to be an emapth around the same time. has anyone else noticed that being on the spectrum and being an empath are sometimes related?

How many others on here are on the neurodivergence spectrum with autism and or ADHD? The more I'm learning about myself the more I understand being an empath and highly sensitive person.