A place for empaths struggling right now

I'm sorry but I must ask...is anyone else waking up in the middle of the night because they have stopped breathing? 2 night in a row this has effected me. I woke up with a throbbing headache because I have stopped breathing. This has happened 3 times in 2 nights. This is not normal at all for me. My dreaming has become more frequent. I didn't used to have dreams. Now I'm having them. But I cannot recall them after I wake up. I feel they are important. Please help. I am beginning to get concerned this has to do with the energy of current events.

Empaths like me are grinning right now because we knew the game plan for the last few years being Q-tards....wry grins...a slight shuffle dance and a knowing bob to the head. The other empaths missed out on all that and are doomed to their attachments to dread. Sorry. Only some got called.

One of the reasons I hate going out in the public is because I get all kinds of feelings from other people.

It's (mostly) OK when they are shopping for Christmas gifts but my GOD to feel all the crap & get the thoughts from them I feel so bad for people.

I just want to go up to everyone & give them a giant hug & tell them it'll all be OK.
But I don't wanna get arrested so I just stay home.

Well....being an empath myself, you have to get over all that. You want to curl up into a ball and whimper. Well...that doesn't work....I want to fucking curl up in a ball and scream...that doesn't work. The ONLY thing I have found that works is adopting Agape. Now, understanding Agape from a non-Christian perspective is difficult but here

"Agape is the highest level of love to offer. It’s given without any expectations of receiving anything in return. Offering Agape is a decision to spread love in any circumstances — including destructive situations. Agape is not a physical act, it’s a feeling, but acts of self-love can elicit Agape since self-monitoring leads to results."

You follow that quest and you will find that you CAN go out. You will find that you can spread your empathy by intention. You will find that you WANT to go out to spread the budding Agape. You will find that you WANT to go out and be the light that is you. Okay?

I do not consider myself an empath. However, I am drawn to this thread because it seems like an appropriate place to say: I am severely disturbed by the calls for violence, civil war, and extermination of the left on this site. I've been a libertarian for for 14 years and am nowhere near a leftist. Based on what I've personally been seeing, I've grown an expectation that the violent rhetoric and actual violence is coming from poor brainwashed kids comprising groups like ANTIFA.

But to see Trump supporters here and on Twitter increasingly starting to speak the way a group like ANTIFA acts, that increased violent division hurts - I respect that other people need to express themselves and I'm glad they are. Often emotional expression will decrease the chance of actual violence v. suppressing it.

It's just become hard for me to talk with my friends IRL or see commentary in online communities that doesn't recognize our humanity. All of us have been innocent children, all of us have been formed in different ways (I recognize a lot of my childhood trauma has dominated my worldview,) I don't know anyone 100% immune to propaganda, all I know how to do listen/speak from a place of peace when engaging or viewing this stuff. And there's lot of people now who seem to want war. I sincerely believe that both 'sides' are suffering and I feel for them.

Anyway, I wrote this in a rush which probably meant it was an emotional burst on here and am hoping I'm not leaving y'all "cold and unresponsive" lol. But I am curious if others here see the goodness in humanity and what your communication methods have been (or not communicating) and how you act when you emotional respond to events you see, but are not participating in.

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I had to take a mild sedative yesterday afternoon JUST so my body could let down its anxiety, so I could decompress.


But we've fallen for a "psyop"?....I mean, you say that like we didn't have forewarning that what is happening was going to happen.


I'm a very aware person, and I'm also a wide open empath. The out and about energy of anxiety is epic right now....off the charts. For some of us, what we're feeling is very difficult to manage....even given almost 62 years of learning how to manage being an empath, I'm awesome at it, this has been as hard as hell to deal with. I know a bit of it is my own stuff, but likely 85% of what I'm feeling is because of the massive anxiety felt by other people running freaking rampant.


I tried pulling all my tricks outta my "For handling stress" bag, and nothing worked, not even for a second. I knew I had to do something to support my body - my entire body was jittery inside for over two days - and that was a .5 mg Xanax my doc prescribed for me. She told me she'd had many phone calls from people running hot with anxiety.


Because I took that one little momma's helper, I slept well last night, woke up feeling refreshed, I'm not jittery, and I'm ready to move forward....and I do not have a 'script for Xanax (save for this one), I've only taken two of them in at least the last decade....but I knew it had to be done, because out of control body reaction. I'm not going to allow being an open empath to make me sick.


Please try to understand OP that simply saying "just decompress" is not an easy task to achieve right now. You've done nothing to help anyone.


Of course we all do need to decompress, it's so unhealthy for us to be running this "hot," but making it sound like it's just that easy to turn off?....you are wrong wherein some of us are concerned. It's just not that easy.

I wrote the following post on another thread, and I think it needs its own thread....and some of us need a thread wherein we can go to let down or learn why they're feeling what they're feeling.

This is NOT an easy time for empaths, and some of us are able to offer support and guidance.


A link to the thread, in case you want to see what I was responding to--

Thread: If you are feeling stressed, drained, upset, angry....


--if I can be of any help, just ask, I'll try. I will not however respond to simple bellyaching....just whining alone will only leave me cold and unresponsive.

This is not a time for whining, while doing nothing for yourself or others around you.

Empaths like me are grinning right now because we knew the game plan for the last few years being Q-tards....wry grins...a slight shuffle dance and a knowing bob to the head. The other empaths missed out on all that and are doomed to their attachments to dread. Sorry. Only some got called.