Husband feels our children's pain so intensely

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My mom is like that and I am like that with my own kids. I can cry just thinking about my kids potential future suffering. I don’t think it’s a big deal. I like this about suffering in general. I have no problem seeing a dead animal, but seeing an animal suffering while dying, just kills me. My dad and brother love to fish and sometime they catch something big that give them a fight for their money. Tunas for example have a lot of blood. I remember crying and desperately asking them to release the poor tuna that was struggling on our boat bleeding everywhere. I cannot stand suffering in general. A therapist once told me that it’s because I am extremely empathetic and feel other people’s pain more so than others.

I think this is a horrible comment used to justify your anxiety, and how dare a therapist tell you that you "feel other people's pain more so than others."

Any rational person feels other people's pain. Some of us just know how to handle it.

Not true. Psychics and empaths feel other people's pain in a way you could not possibly being to understand if you haven't experienced. For example, the night my grandmother died suddenly from a blood clot in her foot, I woke up with severe pain in my foot. My DH took me to ER. While we were there, he called my mother to tell her what was going on and that's when we found out my grandmother had been rushed to the hospital but had died. From a blood clot. In exactly the location of my horrible pain. We lived in Hawaii. They lived in Tennessee. My pain was gone before I even saw the doctor. I had no way of knowing my grandmother was ill.

About a year ago, I called my DH in a panic because I felt short of breath and my chest hurt. I thought I was having a heart attack. He rushed home from work to take me to the hospital. My daughter called me a few minutes later to tell me she had been admitted to the hospital with pneumonia. She was at University of Florida. We were in DC. I had no idea she was even sick. I was fine a few minutes later.

I could list so many other examples. When an empath says she feels pain, she often literally feels specific pain. When I'm with a Hospice patient (I'm a Chaplain), I very often feel the sensations they are feeling. I've learned to manage the energy and it's no longer all that uncomfortable. But I am so accurate that the nurses and doctors often go by my feelings to determine the patients level of distress.