Talk:Empathy/@comment-112.198.82.201-20141029124430/@comment-63.140.92.166-20141213073454

I was born the same. I have had both prophetic dreams and prophetic visions and I was nearly overwhelmed by my empathic abilities the same way you seem to be. the key, for me at least, was to look at my own mindescape and deliberately impose order. Part of the reason you feel overwhelmed is because your not just feeling the emotions around you but your own emotions are being influenced as well. it is like the ability to alter emotions described above, only in reverse. you must not seek to make your power stronger but to separate your power from your own emotions. if you do this, however, there is another danger. if you take it too far you will become apathetic. you will literally feel nothing. I didn't "seek out" sorrow, it stuck to me. For a very long time I was in a permanent state of depression. Anger also had a tendency to overwhelm my ability to control it, I realized what was happening and began to impose order as I described. I took it too far. I hurt more people in my apathy than I ever did out of anger that had been stured up in me by my gift. I then had to live with not only the knowledge that I had hurt someone (often those closest to me) but with actually experiencing there hurt. believe me, it is better to be where you are than to end up apathetic.