Comments on: Absorbing Other Peoples Emotions

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:25:15 +0000

WOW reading all these posts has helped me to pinpoint the cause of my unexplainable bouts of depression and negative emotions. I actually started noticing within the past year or so that i have the ability to absorb other peoples emotions but i kinda thought that maybe i was just bonkers. I really want to use my newly identified gift to help heal the world but i am scared that if i absorb too much negative energy i will destroy myself. I need to find a way of offloading my negative energies without passing them on to someone else. Its a massive relief to find out that i am not the only one experiencing this and reading everyone else’s comments has kind of lifted my spirits. Peace, love and unity to all.

By: Leigh

Leigh — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 22:27:00 +0000

I think I’m the exact same way, though I’m barely an adult (even now I don’t consider myself one just yet — I’m 18), I still feel like when I try to help someone or I’m just having a conversation, I sort of mimic or even absorb their main emotion - be it sadness, happiness, or mainly anger.

I’m actually relieved when I read a lot of these comments. I get that I’m a little late but I can’t help but feel the need to say something.

Just a few hours ago, my whole family all got into an argument and we were all yelling at each other.

It started with my younger cousin who was feeling neglected by his mother. They started the argument off and when it began to escalate, everyone seemed to step in. By then, we were all very angry.

I stayed and tried my best to calm down my cousin and it seemed to to work, except for the fact that I started to feel his sadness and started to cry as well. After he calmed down, I was experiencing small bouts of anger but I hid it well from others. Even after everyone left and I was left by myself in the room, the tension and emotions feel like they are still there and that I’m absorbing all the left over emotions.

My emotions went haywire. I was beyond angry, though nothing caused it, and I was feeling very emotionally drained and sad.

I didn’t understand why and now that I think about it, it only happened after my cousin felt better and happier. I feel as though I took all his negative anger and bottled it up inside of me.

I feel like I am crazy when I say this but it seems that there is no other way to explain this.

Its not always negative, however. Whenever I get angry and I’m around my older brother, his calming vibe and positive energy reflects onto me and I can’t help but take on some of his emotions and let everything else go.

By: Lunora

Lunora — Tue, 17 May 2011 19:33:17 +0000

I haven’t absorbed other’s emotions, however when I give massages, I tend to take what ever pain they have unto myself, including from a physical incident, leaving them free of the affliction… And I am left with the pain they had. Is that normal? Is there anyone else who does this? I know that I am completely drained afterwords, however if I pet an animal, most of my energy comes back, yet the pain lingers.

By: Brad

Brad — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 04:57:38 +0000

I can’t believe that there are others like me! All this time I thought it was some type of genetic mistake. For anyone who feels like others emotions are over flowing and out of control, what always helps me is looking for “vessel” of emotion. What I mean is “feeling around for somebody with good emotions and just letting that emotion in. Prayer helps me too, but I think you have to do what feels best.

By: Izzy

Izzy — Sun, 06 Mar 2011 06:34:16 +0000

I am 14 and i do the same, but i feel so drained afterwards.

By: pixie

pixie — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 07:35:48 +0000

Hello everyone,
I am what some people call a ‘psychic’….I pefer to call myself a Witch…I was born with many Gifts….and one of them is the Gift of Empath….we who have this gift/curse are sponges that absorb other peoples emotions and feel and experience it as if we are them….our job as an Empath is to turn these emotions into a positive feedback for others to heal….I know as a fellow empath how heavy and difficult our Gift is…but there is no greater joy then bringing a smile or giving comfort to those that need it…..the more we give of ourselves….the more we can heal others…and we too become stronger and thus lessen the pain in ourselves too….blessings to you all

Pixie

By: Cara

Cara — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:30:55 +0000

I get something similar, so you’re not alone. I generally feel negative emotions stronger (when i watch a sad movie, I literally feel the heartbreak as if it were my own; or if my friend is angry with someone then I get angry as well, even if I’m not involved with the conflict). I can sometimes even feel someone else’s physical pain, even if I don’t have the body part (saw a guy get kicked in the groin once, and I just about doubled over in pain, which makes NO sense in my opinion). Make sure to come up with a calming ritual of some sort, to dispel the extra emotions, or you will overload and break down. Not pleasant, believe me.

Best of luck with your ability. Remember, you’re different, but not a freak; and see this as a way to help others in a way no one else around them can.

By: christina

christina — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:47:55 +0000

absorbing emotions of others in adult life perhaps comes from anxiety in childhood - a mother who was always unpredictable, for whom one felt responsible. I don’t know how you work through this - you go into a caring profession but then when you retire after years of giving you still go through this with your children and friends and it doesn’t really seem to help them ,just exhaust you. Prayer or some form of formalising thought is possibly the only answer - and trying to keep yourself afloat, refusing to go too far when younger souls want you to solve everything for them but repudiate- rightly- the solutions you offer; maybe it’s just being human

By: admin

admin — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:16:46 +0000

Rachael - what my husband and I have worked out is that he dumps on me and I absorb his emotions. He then feels better. Then I have to dump back on him. He doesn’t absorb my emotions but seems to be able to help me rid my body of them. Then we all feel better.

By: Rachael

Rachael — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 01:40:03 +0000

Wow! I though I was the only one who absorbed others emotions! When my husband gets angry or upset I try to remain positive and look to the brighter side of things! The more I do the more upset he seems to get, so instead, and not sure how I absorb his emotion till I simply can’t function anymore. I break down and feel slightly crazy if you will. The funny thing is that once I enter this state my husband seems to return to normal. Am I actually transfering his stress to my own self?