I am a 47 year old female and from what my dad has told me I was born empathic, I got it from him. He taught me at a very young age how to control it so as not to invade people's privacy. But this past month something is very wrong. I can't turn it off. I feel every one around me for about 5 or 6 miles and I can't make it stop. It hurts and I can't sleep or have my own thoughts and it is ruining my life and I don't know what to do.
I have never had this problem before and it scars me. I am afraid I will go crazy with all the people that I feel. Can you please help me? I have to walk out into the wood to be alone as much as I can not to feel my friends and family. They all know why I do it but they still are hurt by it, trust me I know. The one thing that does save me is that I can't feel the wild animals but they have always come up to me and I feed them from my hand. I think they know I will never hurt them. But I don't want to spend the rest of my life 50 miles away from all my family just to have some peace and to feel my own feelings again.
For some reason "the switch" as I call it is broken and I don't know what to do to fix it, I really need some help here and don't know where else to go. Do you think you can help me? If not, do you know some one that can? PLEASE, this is NO joke and I am NOT crazy (yet) but something has to help me get back my control or I will go crazy! Please help me!