Empaths

[Deborah Butler]

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Are you empath? Do you Wanna talk?

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I am. What do you wanna talk about?

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[Layla Rose]

I am, and I do. I recently moved in with my BFF & I have a hard time dealing with people's energy who are "differently" abled than me. She has issues with brain stuff, as do I, but hers is infecting me and I have no idea how to cope or deal or how to untangle. I prefer living alone for the solitude, but am surprisingly an extrovert and also prefer the city. I find that the energies all mixing together is like the energy equivalent of white noise for me, but when I come back home, I like solitude and being alone. She has a toddler and a grown son. There's problems all around. For reference I'm permanently disabled, have ADHD, & chronic pain. So I can't ever really be alone or recharge with solitude. Also just moved to the burbs from NYC & have no car, yet.

I also find that if living with others is not avoidable, it's better to live with strangers as I can disconnect from them a lot better. I warned her of my issues with the empathic absorption, but I don't think she really gets it, not really sure. I told her many times I would never live with her for that very reason. I don't like what it does to me to have other peoples issues in my brain w/my own stuff. It drives me crazy, especially when I can't get away from it. But she's allowed me to stay here & I have nowhere to go, waiting for affordable housing. Which in this COVID crisis makes me very nervous. I've already placed an ad on Craigslist to find a room, I also have a lot of restrictions here re: cooking etc. b/c she & her son have extreme severe allergies. I am looking for some people who understand so I can vent and blow off steam b/c if I try to complain about her to her it just sounds really ungrateful.

I just really need help and someone (else) to talk to.

[EmpathicChallenges]

I have a somewhat similar situation. I have been in a committed relationship for over 10 years, but we do not live together.  She is not at all empathic, and perhaps a slight bit autistic.  Very intelligent, but unable to do any sort of deep emotional connection.  Sometimes I think I stay in this, due to the lack of that connection.  It is simply easier to manage.  During the COVID crisis, her adult daughter has been at home (along with a teenage daughter).  The adult daughter is empathic, which presents its own difficulties.  But now, the tension at her home is simply too difficult to bear.  I have found i am anesthetizing myself with a drink or two just to be able to handle the challenge.  I am spending much more time alone at my place, as I need the space to recover.  I am also a bit of an extrovert, and can take energy from the right situations, but find others extremely trying and draining.  I also find the grocery shopping experience to be exhausting... so many tense people evaluating everyone as threats... I almost passed out in the store the other day.  I can see some real parallels here, but the circumstances are obviously different.  It is a tough time for empaths  right now.