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Help! Feeling too intensely

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I know that I am an Empath and in general a rather deep and emotionally intense person. It's really not easy to live like this. I would love to be emotionally more balanced, but I just care too deeply about people. It seems that I feel stronger emotions than most people around me which to me is more of a disability. I cannot really focus on my goals because I am so caught up in my emotions and as a consequence I am often quite unstable. I tried meditation but it just doesn't really help. I am currently also taking antidepressants for depression which seems stupid to me. it does not really help and address the source of the problem: my deep feelings. I am depressed, because I feel so intense emotions and life is not always beautiful and fun. Life consists of so much change and loss and to someone who feels so deeply this means a constant state of grief. In fact I believe I suffer from "depression", because I am grieving the losses of life. I am just so sick of feeling so much and would love to reduce the intensity. Does anyone have any suggestions what to do when you are feeling too deeply? Thanks for reading :)

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1 hour ago, Pilgrim said:

I am depressed, because I feel so intense emotions and life is not always beautiful and fun. Life consists of so much change and loss and to someone who feels so deeply this means a constant state of grief.

I don't really have an advice on how to be more stable (haven't managed really), but I suggest you reconsider the belief above.

I am not sure what losses you had in your life, maybe you do need to grieve and be depressed right now.

But IMHO if you have an ability to feel intensely, you're also capable to feel intense positive emotion, which can make life so much more joyful than the lives of people who are cut off. I suggest you try to shift your attention to notice the positives also, and to try shift your "baseline" happiness so that your emotional fluctuation is not between neutral and desperate, but between painful and excited. I may be off, but that's more or less what happened to me in the past years.

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Check out the documentary Sensitive: An Untold Story. You might just be what they call a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP). I know I am, and having a better understanding of how to interact with the world if you are a HSP could prevent getting too overwhelmed.

If the depression has been going on for awhile, you're probably dealing with emotional trauma that you need to work through. Shadow work could help with that, it's helping me immensely. There's nothing wrong with feeling deeply, it's actually a gift that's usually misunderstood. It means you can understand things on a level that not everyone can.

If you feel more deeply you are more susceptible to depression, but you are also able to experience positive emotions more deeply like joy and happiness. 

The documentary E-motion gives several tools to work through your emotional trauma from experts that are focused on raising the consciousness of the planet. If you do feel deeply you should definitely know how to properly process your emotions and how to catch anything that slips through the cracks.

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@Pilgrim Set up boundaries and be mindful of energy vampires. If you leave an encounter with energy depleted - it's most likely an energy vampire. Encounters with a balanced sharing of energy won't leave an empath depleted and exhausted.

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On 11/5/2018 at 8:46 PM, Pilgrim said:

I know that I am an Empath and in general a rather deep and emotionally intense person. It's really not easy to live like this. I would love to be emotionally more balanced, but I just care too deeply about people. It seems that I feel stronger emotions than most people around me which to me is more of a disability. I cannot really focus on my goals because I am so caught up in my emotions and as a consequence I am often quite unstable. I tried meditation but it just doesn't really help. I am currently also taking antidepressants for depression which seems stupid to me. it does not really help and address the source of the problem: my deep feelings. I am depressed, because I feel so intense emotions and life is not always beautiful and fun. Life consists of so much change and loss and to someone who feels so deeply this means a constant state of grief. In fact I believe I suffer from "depression", because I am grieving the losses of life. I am just so sick of feeling so much and would love to reduce the intensity. Does anyone have any suggestions what to do when you are feeling too deeply? Thanks for reading :)

Read book "feeling good by david burns" (crows say that there's free legal download on archive.org)

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I was born with empathic abilities and highly sensitive. What I realised on my journey is that to be able to handle people’s emotions means first being able to have an unconditional openness for your own emotions. When you feel this openness in yourself, naturally you hold an openness for other people’s emotions. 

By being able to do that you are not constantly getting triggered by their emotions. They have an openness that they can play out in. 

Remove resistance and you’ll naturally be able to experience other’s emotions in not such an overstimulating fashion.

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In the depths of winter,
I finally learned that within me 
there lay an invincible summer.

- Albert Camus

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@Pilgrim go in a quiet room or get a memory pillow,get a timer if you are really into this ,  do some exercise,ex for a minute and then chant AUUMMM as much as you can( the memory pillow is in case you live with more people so you can put your face in the pillow when you chant),then repeat the exercise , the less you talk in this world the more mad you'll become, thats why you must chant ,AUM has powerful vibrations because you don't use the tongue , i've done alot of things in this life for peace and nothing worked but this ,i was literally mad,now i can go outside or in a car without having panic attacks, try it ,if not ,god bless you

chanting aum is like a powerful substitution for verbally socialisation

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On 11/5/2018 at 5:46 PM, Pilgrim said:

I know that I am an Empath and in general a rather deep and emotionally intense person. It's really not easy to live like this. I would love to be emotionally more balanced, but I just care too deeply about people. It seems that I feel stronger emotions than most people around me which to me is more of a disability. I cannot really focus on my goals because I am so caught up in my emotions and as a consequence I am often quite unstable. I tried meditation but it just doesn't really help. I am currently also taking antidepressants for depression which seems stupid to me. it does not really help and address the source of the problem: my deep feelings. I am depressed, because I feel so intense emotions and life is not always beautiful and fun. Life consists of so much change and loss and to someone who feels so deeply this means a constant state of grief. In fact I believe I suffer from "depression", because I am grieving the losses of life. I am just so sick of feeling so much and would love to reduce the intensity. Does anyone have any suggestions what to do when you are feeling too deeply? Thanks for reading :)

Hey, fellow empath here. 
What I feel like will be the most beneficial piece of advice for you is - Do not resist who you are. You are an empath, you are magnificent, glorious, sensitive kind soul. Quit anti-depressants and any other artificial substances that you could be using as a way of numbing down your emotions - drugs, alcohol, whatever there might be, and reclaim your natural openness.
And I so deeply feel that deep inside of yourself, you know this, you know this so very well. You know that opening up towards your emotions is the gateway towards your own inner salvation. And so I ask you, stop putting it off. Feel now. You are not depressed (clinically speaking). Your nervous system is just processing the pain of the planet that dwells within you. Feel it now.


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