Are you an Em path or Psychic or Both?

I have no idea what I am

I'm a novelist. That's one thing I DID figure out finally. ha ha

I knew a guy who always said he was an Empath but he just acted as clueless as the rest of us ... so I don't know.

I am extremely emphathetic to other people's feelings. However, I don't think I get to the point of depression. I will cry at sad movies, but then it's done.

It's fun to cry at sad movies - that's the point.

Carol, I had no idea you were an empath.

I have been told that I am emotionally insane but I don't think that is the same. Some people cannot handle emotional people...oh well, there loss.

I am very much an empath...to the point I can feel someone else's pain. I believe I have a touch of psychic in me as well.

I have always had a strong intuition that borders on psychic. The best example and strongest example, is a dream I had when I was still in college. I had a dream in which I saw an open door, I saw my grandfather , he smiled at me and then walked through the door. I then saw my father kneeling down crying. I awoke from the dream, in an emotional state. I looked over at the clock on the bedside table next to me and noticed it was a little over 1:30 am and went back to sleep.

The next day, I called home and before my father could say anything, I told him "Don't tell me, abuelito, died" he answered "yes" I then learned he died about 1:30 that day.

To this day, I can remember all the details from that dream.

BOTH

I'm more em path than psychic. I cannot watch anything that shows cruelty to children or animals or I get hysterical. I can't bear for people to tell me stories they have heard about suffering and pain. I avoid these things as much as I can. You're never alone, Carol. There are lots of people who are like you.

Carol, I think that is what makes you an excellent writer.

You have to be empathic to be a writer, for sure. At least if you don't want characters to be simple black or white.

Both but the psychic aspect does not involve speaking with the dead just having dreams and momentary flashes of things that have happened or are about to happen. The empath part makes me very sad a lot of the time and I cry very easily if someone in proximity is emitting too much negative energy. Almost every movie makes me cry at one time or another.

Thank you to all. I feel your pain. Who said that? That's right Donna. I don't speak with my mother never mind the dead.

I'm slightly empathetic to most people's feelings.

Empathetic

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I am an Em path and do not like it very much a lot of times! It scares me, as I don't understand why I can do this.

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At the risk of being called a 'party pooper' I suggest that what you called exceedingly empathic is perhaps better conceived of as over idenitification. This is the reason why surgeons do not operate on their children. Additionally I think it is pure fantasy that anyone truly believes they feel the pain of someone else. What we refer to as pain is always embedded in a personal context. No one human being can completely "know" the intracy of anothers' context. For this reason I reject the often quoted {grandiose} phrase: "I know you like a book."

I do believe that some people are indeed able to be finely attuned to the experience of some others. I also believe some people are telepathic. But this is an approximation to anothers internal reality, not an exact carbon copy.

Whatever data we pick up out of the flow of our internal and external realities must necessary be subject to our own idiosyncratic conscious and unconscious interpretations.

Some have such gifted qualities and others just pretend out of wishful thinking.

Carol, I am both. I have found that it happens when there is a reason to help someone or help yourself.
I cant watch Titanic either. I understand.

I am neither, thank God. I have enough on my plate to deal with without that one. Empathy is difficult, Carol. My doctor says I am too empathetic in the non-spiritual sense and that -- in itself -- is quite enough without having an actual spiritual gift. It is burdensome, or it can be.

. . . and Peter, it is true that you are a novelist -- YES!!! But, after seeing your birthday photos, I would say that you are also novel. Quite novel, in the most marvelous way. No wonder you write about such interesting people.

I have a light touch of empath symptoms too. But for the type of work I do I have to stay grounded.

I am empathic its kind of creepy when I astro travle to a place that I have never been before for a reason I do not know