Are you sensitive to other people's emotions/energy

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15 Mar 2017, 4:35 pm

Some people are very overwhelming to me. The majority of people are not really very significant, but some are very electrically colourful or very peaceful and warm. Some are jagged and unsettling.

Very rarely I get someone who is good vibes and jagged and squiggly, like pigpen from charlie brown comics. They aren't good or bad, but very overwhelming to the senses.



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15 Mar 2017, 7:01 pm

Maybe those in my immediate family to a degree.



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15 Mar 2017, 7:39 pm

I get this.

I don't see it like an energy aura or anything, but I do feel the things you're talking about. I might have used different words to describe it buy I understand what you mean.

Eye contact with such people--the ones whose vibes are very strong--is even more painful than eye contact usually is. But eye contact with the ones who are very peaceful and warm is acceptable.


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16 Mar 2017, 6:46 pm

I have if I'm in a great mood for sensing it, but in turn, I can't 'turn it off'. So I have to wait to stop sensing things.
If I'm not in a mood to do so, I have to focus to sense it, meaning I get to control when and when not to sense it. The effort required varies.
And it's entertaining to witness and feel it from a distance. Which is why I like watching people, listening to them, and I tend stare sometimes. I don't have a special vision or any sort I just feel it.

At the same time, I get to learn how to deal with it. It's almost the same as how I dealt physical sensitivity, I 'absorb' it instead of trying to block or ignore.
Difference is the input (feeling) sensory sensitivity from emotional ones. And I'm still affected from emotions and energies in some extent, just enough to be overwhelmed if I'm not careful.


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16 Mar 2017, 7:42 pm

No.

I'm not very sensitive to my own emotions, and even less to others. I only pick up on others' emotions when it's obvious.


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17 Mar 2017, 3:57 pm

Unless it is really obvious I find I miss picking up on how other people are.

I've always known that name calling can affect people emotionally.

I then found out recently after reading a book about Autism/Aspergers that my mood/emotions can affect the mood/emotions of others; and visa versa, their mood can affect me too.

The very idea that someone could (and do) display one emotion whilst feeling another inside of them completely shocked me. The only one I can relate to is pretending to be OK when you are not. Someone looking happy could be really angry inside...... :?

Also I find it hard to tell the difference between levels of an emotion. What is the difference, for example between mildly annoyed and somewhat angry? Or moderately happy and overjoyed.

I do recall one time we went to visit a model train exhibition. I'd taken my camera to take photos, but something about the room/people, just left me so cold to the idea of taking photos. That is the only time I remember really picking up the "vibes" of a place.



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17 Mar 2017, 4:57 pm

I get stressed out when I see conflicts and when my children bicker and whine and are hyper. My Bipolar cousin ha also stressed me out because of her exaggerated emotions and all her energy she has. I get anxious. I am not sure how it is for NTs because I know they have a hard time with their kids too. I never asked how my mom gets around my cousin when she has her moments like doe sit exhaust her or make her stressed or anxious or tense like it does for me. I am not sure if this is what you meant.


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17 Mar 2017, 5:16 pm

Perhaps it's some kind of environmental indoctrination or the result of depression, but I seem far more attuned to the negative energy some people project than whether or not they're happy. Most people I see out and about don't look happy at all, however.
I can accept I often misread people, too. At my old work experience, one of my temporary colleagues told me she was going upstairs to take a private call from her boyfriend, came back down after some time with red, puffy eyes holding a tissue, and I was immediately asked her sympathetically if she was getting a cold. Urgh, it all became obvious afterwards, but I still kick myself over that one.


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17 Mar 2017, 5:19 pm

Often I find. The less engrossed I am with what I am doing the more tuned in I am. I typically like to notice what goes on in the class and make an effort to pick up what others are feeling.



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17 Mar 2017, 5:21 pm

Im extremely sensitive to peoples emotions, or energies which i understand is referred to being empathic. Im also a highly emotional person so it may be part of it. My energic body as a whole seems overly active, and while it causes difficulties is situations like crowded areas as i seem to receive info from all different directions and get overwhelmed. Ive learned some coping mechanisms certain situations, and as ive gotten older ive learned to appreciate it as an ability that not many people share and something that can be used in a non-self serivng positive way. Person to person i seem to "tune into" them, and randomly can walk past someone and make eye contact (which i dont normally like) and experience this deep uncommunicated connection. Its nothing visual, just more of an understanding on a metaphysical level.



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17 Mar 2017, 5:30 pm

In some ways, yes. I can't really read people's surface feelings very well. But if someone is stressed out, raising their voice, or rushing around the area, it tends to stress me out immediately.



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18 Mar 2017, 3:36 pm

I'm also one of the highly sensitive types. I have very adverse reactions to the moods and emotions of other people. I felt this way around my mum last year around this time, but it took the strength in every fiber of my being not to let it show.


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19 Mar 2017, 6:40 pm

I get really upset if there is conflict or bad vibes, its like I feel their pain myself. I seem to feel whatever the other person is feeling where as I dont seem to feel anything either way in myself. Like when people die or get hurt, the news is just news to me but I dont feel anything but if this upsets someone infront of me then I feel the vibe off them if this makes any sense but I myself dont really have much feeling.