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I live by my abilities. Intuition empath mediumship and so on I would be lost and definitely very alone and depressed if ever my gifts went away..they have only increased and I love each and everyone of them..Thats not to say I could not use a rest once in awhile and sometimes get frustrated because I can not do more…but there comes a balance and it makes feel balanced…
When I was a teen, I often had dreams about a family member passing away, or knew things before they happened. I saw spirts from the time I was young, but that faded over time. Now its pretty minimal.
When I was 13 I was severely depressed and dreamed about a little boy and his little sister.. he was blond and she had black hair and was very serious. He told me he was my son and he loved me very much. I knew one day I would marry someone with dark hair and dark eyes, he would be from another state and have a name like mine. 19 years later my son was born. 21 years later my daughter. It happened exactly as I knew it would. I love them.. and I knew they would be mine. But it seems like I had little choice in how I got to them. Was it a path I had to follow? Or was it a prediction of the future? IDK.
I’ve dreamt of other peoples children also, been able to tell them they were pregnant or would soon be before they knew it.
I can focus on a person and know their needs.. their fears. Tell them all about themselves.. and if I would so choose, use that to manipulate situations. I rarely do this.
However.. with all these gifts, its left me feeling empty as if something in me is missing. No one really gets me, and I can never fully share my secrets with them. The few ppl I have, I honestly think I scare them a little bit.
I also have an uncanny bond with animals. I love them.. and they love me. I keep trying to get my kids a pet that will love them.. but always they want me… lol My husband says he can find me in the house just by looking where the pets are congregated.
I love how my abilities have always helped me help others. But at many times they have left me feeling completely alone.
I always thought maybe there was something wrong with me.
If I walk or stand too close to electrical poles I can feel the electrical humming. I can feel static in the air before lightning storms. And I get the type of goosebumps where the hair on my arms stands straight up right before power outages.
In 2004, one of my friends was killed in a robbery while visiting another state. It was 3 am where he was. I woke up from a dead sleep at exactly 12:00am where I was. I don’t know why I woke up or why I couldn’t move. I just know I was scared as hell because I just felt like someone was in my room. It scared the crap out of me.
I didn’t find out what happened to him until 5 days later. I don’t know what to make of that cause I don’t believe in ghost nonsense. I just know that was the first & last time I ever experienced that. And it just happened to be the same night around the same time he was murdered. I really liked him cause he was one of the most honest no nonsense people I ever met.
He lived wild, but he was sincere in everything he did. It’s too bad there’s such a shortage of real people on this planet. Especially here in America. Sometimes I stand in awe of all the people who could support a President that tells over 10, 000 lies in less than 1,000 days.
They don’t even have the guts to admit they only like him cause of his racist views. It’s hard to watch.
When Collin Kappernick was being criticized for kneeling during the anthem, I was so disappointed in people. I felt like everyone in the stadium should have taken a knee with him if they really loved America. How could people love America & not support a fellow American is beyond me.
Most people don’t even realize the flag is actually British. Red White & Blue are the colors of the King. Ironic that British saw the weakness in American intellect & exploited it to achieve the original outcome they wanted, simply by surrendering & allowing the people to think they won independence.
This country was founded by freedom loving slave owners who thrived on hypocrisy & deceit. Everything about it has been fake, so why would most of the people be any different? smh.
Oh well. I never even heard of an empath before, but I think it’s pretty cool & there’s nothing to be ashamed of. Learn to control & use it for good.
My boyfriend’s last girlfriend passed away. He is having a lot of Medical problems now and not doing very well. We are needing to get all his financial stuff in order. This is really strange, but I’m remembering things I know never happened to me, yet they seem so real. And now I’m dreaming of things that seem like the previous girlfriend’s memories. It seems like I’m in her body! She seems to helping me, almost guiding me getting things in order. She seems to be really helpful, BUT she died of a rare lung disorder. Now my lungs are enlarged and having sharp pain in my lungs. I’ve gone to a couple doctors. They can’t find any reason for it, & steroids aren’t reducing it. There’s no scar tissue to show damage, nothing seems abnormal. I think I might be feeling her pain & physically picking up her problems. I know she’s helping & I think she has taken away a lot of my stress. Does anyone know what I can do? I want her around, but I don’t want to inherit her problems! Please, can someone help. I don’t understand all of this stuff. I thought I was going crazy, until I could recall things that only my boyfriend & her knew. He doesn’t normally believe in this stuff, but he was so shocked & bothered by it he’s had to walk away & get some air. I’m just hoping somewhere out there has some answers!
I was recently diagnosed as an empath. I fell in love with a narcissist who crushed my heart. She was in a 9 year relationship with a guy who ended up dumping her. Only she never told me about it, so I couldn’t understand what was going on with her. She said she loved me, but I could sense her real feelings every once in awhile. She complained once that she felt like all the men her life never had time for her. So I made it a point never to make her feel like that. She seemed depressed a lot.
So I would send her silly e-mails every morning before she woke up to make sure her day started with a smile. I would send her good morning beautiful” texts or just let her know I was thinking about her. But when I wanted time to talk to her she would make excuses. Suddenly wanting her time became a problem for her.
I’ve always been straight forward & honest with people, to the point of causing me problems sometimes. And I have a really low tolerance for BS. When she started sending me mixed signals I called her on it. Then she just started ignoring me all the time. If it had been anyone else I would have left them alone at that point, but I really liked her. Then one day she told me I screwed up her head, which was odd because she never really gave me a chance to be with her & pretty much ignored me all the time.
I felt like she thought I was someone else. It was so confusing as hell. Finally I got fed up & let honesty fly. She cut me out her life & blocked me. I just don’t get why people have to play games. Life is too short for that.
It’s ironic that at the beginning she told me communication was key. But she wouldn’t open up to me & wouldn’t communicate. If she had just been honest at the beginning about her feelings and communicated with me, I would have been able to understand everything better. Instead I was sensing her mangled ball of confusion & ignoring the signs, because I wanted to believe what she was telling me.
Worst heartbreak ever. I could have sworn I literally felt my heart crack. It’s been 2 months & I don’t know why I miss her so much. I actually think she might have met someone else & just wouldn’t be honest.
Narcissists are incapable of love, empathy, sympathy etc., They are demons in human form with one and only one agenda. Self gratification! .They hunt until they conquer, then discard and Empaths are their favorite targets. Unfortunately for him I could see right through his lies, and manipulation, and I called him out on it every single tim, and gave it back to him 3 golds. I had never come across these demons before but he couldn’t conquer me. But he nearly broke me, because unfortunately for me, I was madly in love by the time he slipped off the mask.
He took my kindness for a weakness and that’s when he met the devil himself. He left me no choice I couldn’t have forgiven myself otherwise.
This isn’t a correct view about narcissist people or people with narcisstic personality disorder. This is a mental disorder. They are not born like this. They are victims of their parents which probably were also suffering the same thing. It’s easy to blame them. But it’s wrong and give yourself a bad image as well. Mostly narcissists meet empathic people cause they have the same task to learn in an oppsite way. Both aren’t care about themself. There where the narcist feeds his ego with his opponent, there the empath direct hisself to the opposite to fullfill somebody else needs. Both extrems define their self on the other. But they are never themselves. The narcist will probably never find his real core cause he is prisoner in his own ego. It’s wrong to say they ain’t emathic at all. They are but they aren’t interested in the other person. They use it to keep themselves stable. To keep their mask, their secure world. You can’t blame them. They built a wall so they don’t have to feel. They fear their emotional paincause it might be too much to carry for them. You as an empath are able to change yourself. To bring yourself into a balance of your empathic and narcisstic parts. Cause both parts are in everyone. Being only empathic is the same unhealthy as being too much narcisstic. You can learn to get into balane with staying by yourself and get lesser attackable. The solution is self love and self acceptance. What neither a narcisstic person nor an empathic person have.
That’s the most accurate description of a relationship between a “more” Empathetic and a “more” Narcissistic human beings I have ever seen and explains to the dot my personal experience which costed me as much as it taught me…..Thank you so much for that
I am currently dealing with a person with those traits. 10 yrs together.last 4 been a living hell until I released him and toxicity. Disengaged. He’s been tryin* to reconcile even though he KNOWS that I know about all his dirty little secrets and multiple karmics. He seems to think that I will continue to wait around for him. Had to disengage to HEAL. TOO MUCH TOXICITY and my health paid the price of his diabolical machinations -became abusive emotionally and physically. I sacrificed too much of myself for his needs. Learned to LOVE MYSELF FIRST. He feels betrayed that I give little of my energies to him. Still live together but emotionally. Keeping distance cuz I know first hand just HOW devious and abusive he can get when he doesn’t get his way. If somebody else makes him mad, if I am in his sights, I become the target of his anger even if I didn’t do anything. He has a lot of negative energies. I’ve drawn my boundaries with him and he knows I won’t allow him near me if I sense ANY negativity from him. Healing myself right now. I know we are counterparts, yin and yang. We learned the hard way that we can’t be separated from each other for very long. Protective order drove us BOTH CRAZY ! Neither could function properly without the other. He would sneak outside the house just to be close to me. Can FEEL his presence. Telepathic messages throughout the day very exhausting. Find relaxation out in nature especially at the beach. Take more naps now. Didn’t realize until recently that I was empath. Didn’t pay much attention to it before. Spiritually awakened to A LOT of changes in my life recently. I’m a healer. Been told that before but didn’t take it seriously. That would explain why I can sense other spiritual healers without talking to them, drawn to them, FEEL their energy. Intuition tells me the universe brought us together to help each other.
Your situation is very similar to mine. Almost exact in the way you felt and the things it happened. Only differences are that I have known this person for 20 plus years and been very good friends both have been there for each other through our divorces, both of us are good friends with our/each others exes to this day even. all the sudden one day everything changed, she did end up with someone else about two months after we split up and she to explorered the idea that she is an empath. Is it possible or could it be that we both are uneducated empaths and that our problems were caused by lack of knowledge and caused the problems we were having. Basically, basically, we were together all the time and we just didn’t know how to handle the feeling/energy we were experiencing together. We have always been friends that could count on.each other but while together we never seemed to get out of a funk. I’m sure there is much more that I have not said and alot more to it but I wanted to put this out there since what i read in the post was so similar to my situation. Any insight into this situation will be greatly appreciated. Have a blessed day y’all!
Ive known my whole life that i was different but untill a few years ago i didnt know what it was .. why i just knew things , why i would feel so depressed for no reason or a sense of sadness ,loss or great sorrow , how i could be a bartender but not like to go to big parties or be around a lot of people , why i couldnt find real love or feel like i wasnt lovable, to give everything and never get back or would deflect anyone willing to help and always putting on a smile to hide what i was feeling to not bring anyone down but always feeling overwhelmed, not allowing anyone in not sharing myself completely or being vulnerable , i think because fear of rejection or not really knowing who i am cause ive never been sure of if my thoughts or feelings where mine or something else. Feeling such loneliness yearning for that relationship for unconditional love the kind i would give yet afraid to open up because i know my empath abilities would ruin it cause i woyld sense everything good and bad and the unsaid would change my attitude or personality where as the non empath person in a relationship would not sense these times and there relationship would continue forward without the change of attitude that your partner would have no idea where it was coming from because they had no idea you were feeling , sensing or knowing there thoughts or emotions . And this is just a few things i deal with daily , i watch sad things on t.v and it drains me i belong to every animal rescue site and if i start my day on one of the sites i sit on my bed and cry for hours for these poor suffering animals wishing i could save all them or anyone..feeling no knowing when im around an animal i can tell u what they are thinking or feeling as if im reading there mind and they know it too. Cause the will look directly at me into my eyes as if they are wanting me to know .. its crazy and the older i get the stronger the burdens of being an intuitive empath become .. i have often wondered what it would be like to be “normal” i see friends and other people interacting in ways i cant in relationships i long to have but because i know things, feel things , read people even when i dont want even strangers , i feel when someone is thinking negative about me . People use to assume i was stuck up or thought i was too good but its just the opposite i am very self conscious and shy i guess yet i am a bartender im told all the time yet i feel like i am being judged or misread based on how i look and what is expected . I know i am like no other and for most it takes a few times of being around me to realize that i am authentic people seem to always question my integrity or are looking for ulterior motives to my kindness or helping others asking for nothing giving all etc . No one knows or would understand if i told them i am a full blown empath my heart is heavy but full of love to give i care more about others then myself i can give but hard to receive i love unconditionally and feel too much i dont know who i am or what i really want or need because i am always mistaking there feelings for mine or maybe they are mine i cant tell anymore .. im so confused as to where my life is going will i always feel alone , be alone , feel incomplete . I will work 50 hours a week sometimes just to keep busy and my mind free yet i need time to reflect but to much alone time or sitting with self can be overwhelming trying to make sense of things .. its christmas and this year it is harder then most i usually love christmas but im feeling heavy in heart i wake up with a pain in my gut that starts in center of my rib cage and radiates through out my entire gut chest shoulders sometimes been having this off and on for 20 years now but last cpl years it has become more frequent , doctors say probably something i ate .. (really ) .. anyways thank you for this site and for once being able to talk just alittle bit of only some of things i am going thru and how being an intuitive empath has effected my life .. or some of it .. there is so much more i could go on and on ..
I know i have got to figure out the best way to live with this and find my own happiness and stability and me in all the unknowning of the empath i am
I could have wrote that myself. It is me to a “t”.even to bartending..wow..
I am 100% on this same struggle with an empath life…i also feel it strengthen with age. I’ve always done food service and its always ended in me leaving…also I have done healthcare but that too is draining….maybe because i don’t know how to completely channel the energy’s I feel….I also fit under multiple empath types. My types I identify with most are emotional,physical, the all “knowing” type and something new has popped up and i can’t figure it out. Maybe you can help me? My grandfather is old and unwell but still goes to florida for the winter from Ohio. Now a couple days ago i smelled his scent and the next day it was stronger. Yesterday my cousin flew down in an emergency as my grandfather is in the hospital. What does that gift fall under. It was so weird as it was the first time i realized this happening. I’ve had an experience once when i was driving and just broke down hysterically like I’d just lost my child…and out of no where…i was driving past a little run down section of our city but this feeling I’d never had so strong before. It was awful like the deepest sorrow you could feel. It’s hard figuring it all out and I wish we had a group here where I live. I feel like being around other empathic people would help me strengthen my abilities. There’s so much more i just can’t put it all into words
Audrey,
I thought i was the only person who felt the way that i felt. But its like you were exptessing my feelings and thoughts.
I have wondered for a while if I could be an empath. I was engaged to someone whome i thought was the man of my dreams. I couldnt place it but our connection opened my eyes to a whole new world of emotions, feelings, spirituality… It changed me. I felt a draw to him immediately, and when we spoke for the first time and he looked up and saw it was me speaking to him, it was like he was surprised. Like his soul recognized mine wondering where I had been. And in the months to follow we began to fall in love. I could feel our closeness, our joint emotions, we knew what the other was thinking, and once he went to read some thing off of the computer to me but before he could say the words out loud they came out of my mouth. He asked how i knew that and I said you just said it, he insists he read it silently to himself but i could hear his voice in my head saying the words. We got engaged. A few months later I started sering some red flags but was hoping i was wrong. But I started seeing more flags more often and by the time I had realized he was a sociopathic narcissist, it was too late. I was so in love with him I couldnt bare the thought of accepting the fact that he will most likely die alone because he may not ever be able to love someone back. I wanted him to feel loved even if it was killing me. I still do but i know that my desire for him to return my love will only keep growing and thus the disappointment and pain would only grow as well.
Now i am so lost. All of my plans for the future were with him.
I dont know what i want to do (we worked together so i quit my job now I wait tables at a place where i cant pay my bills), were were looking at houses so my daughter and i have made no other living arrangements and live with my parents currently. I feel lost in about every piece of my life and so alone and i dont even know what I think or feel because I cant handle being alone with myself so I am always trying to help others with stuff.
I know i have so much more to offer this world than just bringing people their soup, i feel as if i am wasting away. And then i feel selfish and guilty for dwelling so much on my problems.
I guess it is kind of nice to think I am not the only person ever to feel this way
Cassie, I’m sorry you were exposed to the manipulation of a narcissist. They instinctively know how to mirror you and make you feel as though they have been searching their whole life to find you. Usually when a relationship with a narc ends, the empath is broken, completely confused,bewildered ,abandoned and quite literally barely able to function day to day. On the other hand the narcissist moves right on without so much as a hiccup. And they leave a trail of mental psychological , financial ,and spiritual devastation. As dark as it may seem, you need to know that this event will make you a stronger more self aware and resilient person. Sometimes we need to be stripped down to our core so we could build ourselves back up. Sadly the narcissist will just find another victim and wash rinse and repeat. Over and over, with no change, no growth and will continue to run from ever having to look within. My advice to you is be gentle and kind to yourself, let your parents help you, connect on an honest level with your children. Teach them about protecting themselves from psychic vampires. Anything you feel is valid, just let the feelings come up and don’t resist them. It will feel uncomfortable and uneasy for a while but it is so important to not let a life changing experience like this go by without transformation. . You were duped and all you did to deserve it was open up your heart. There are online support groups maybe check one out. There are some good ones on Facebook as well as excellent YouTube channels that were designed to provide support to victims of narc abuse. Lastly, I respect the hell out of wait staff. You are some of the hardest working, self sacrificing people in the world.
Is it possible to be a combination of all the different types of empath? There are more than one description that I can definitely relate to.
It is, often like personality qualities we have a little bit of each in different degrees.
i too could have written this myself. i guess knowing there really are other people out there who feel the things i do and live the way i do is comforting but wish others could and would understand.
Most people think. I am a witch or worse. It hurts me so deeply that 99% of the population doesn’t understand and get so uoset when i try to explain. I hardly talk about this at all. I finally met a man that is intrigued and not afraid 9f this gift i have been blessed with
I would like to talk to each of you guys, I don’t understand my gifts either!! It’s very draining. I don’t like going around a bunch of people because I get overwhelmed hearing their thoughts and feelings it’s so draining!! I hate the Mall!! So many people so many thoughts and feelings!!! I go to work, I’m a Elementary School Secretary, I come home and I’m like wiped out!!! I have to recoup in my room alone. I know y’all understand what I’m talking about ☺️ Anywho someone or all of y’all please send me a email or contact me back!! I would love to talk to people like me.
I really thought I was alone. I just discovered that I am a empath.