Why am I sensitive to crowded areas, and is it spiritual?

Question

Sometimes whenever I go to areas with lots of people I don't know I feel very uncomfortable. Not in a agoraphobic sense but I feel like the thoughts of these people are combining into some kind of mixture of stress, tension, confusion, uneasiness....It is hard to explain. I have no problem being around people normally, but only when there is a group of very different people. Here's a better way to look at it.-----
It almost feels like I am trying to figure out what everyone in the area is thinking, like I am trying to read their thoughts and I am getting it all at once. It is very unsettling for me. Any thoughts?

Answer 1

I disagree with the other answerers who put this down as a social anxiety disorder . You are an empath and a sensitive (like me) and you pick up on other people's moods and feelings easier than most. To change it or try to get rid of it would change your very essence and who you are. When I am in a crowd like that or in a place that has a negative "vibe" I just do a simple psychic sheild to keep it from affecting me so much.
An example was yesterday; We are in the process of buying and moving into a boat. We have a small tender that we have been using to go on the various Loughs etc over here to get more aquainted with places that we will be visiting and mooring up on. We went to a place called Ringhaddy yesterday and went across the water to a small island there to look at an old trawler with a view to buying and converting it. I stepped on to it with himself and we looked about, we opened the hatch to climb inside and I just couldn't bring myself to get in. I just got such an intense feeling of fear and death in it. It was so ..."black" it was unreal, we visited another boat on the harbour also and I just couldn't get away from it fast enough. The island itself was beautiful, idyllic and I would love to live on it were it not so far away from everyone I know. After the trawler tho I knew we had to cross the water to get back onshore to the landrover etc and I wanted to cry, there was such intense sorrow after the trawler.There are sunken wrecks galore there, yet a wreck doesn't usually bother me, at sea you come to expect it, but the wrecks there just got to me. For another reason I kept expecting a body to be found on the water on our way back and finding a small speedboat with a radio blaring and nobody aboard really didn't help matters as the rest of the marina/harbour was deserted. I have never felt like that when out on the sea anywhere else before. Yet I know that the Marina is a place I will never feel comfortable in. Thankfully for us and our boat there are other places, but not there. This is the second time I have been there and both times I just felt so sorrowful and needed to get out of there right away. It was like the waters there just wanted to claim as much as it could. I had no choice but to "shield" yesterday. It helped a little but it didn't take the knowledge away that there is a huge amount of sorrow surrounding that place.

Answer 2

You are actually not alone, and I have met several others in my life who are very sensitive to others' feelings and etc. "Social anxiety" may be one way to "explain" your situation, as well as "agoraphobia" in a broad sense. But what you are experiencing is a natural part of who you are. Instead of being afraid of who you are, try to find out how you can use these sensitivities to help yourself and others. You may be an ideal peacemaker, or just a really good friend. And there's nothing anywhere that says that anyone HAS to be comfortable in a crowd.

Answer 3

You have empathy--the ability to feel what others are feeling. You may be picking up on it only in crowds because there are so many feelings there all at once. Don't be ill at ease with it. There is always a reason. Just cover yourself with the peace of Jesus before you go into a crowd. When you are in a crowd, pray the peace of Jesus over them.

Answer 4

You are most likely an empath, able to pick up the energy behind the emotions of others. Search for it. There's some good sites on how to cope with it. It's both a blessing and a curse if you are unaware of it going on.

Answer 5

It is not spiritual but Psychological. It is a kind of a fear mentioned in Fear Factor :)

It is quite normal - do not worry - how you can get over it is by being in the midst of gatherings often - probably you don't have enough experience to do so.

And - please - don't care a S HI T for what others might think of you ! you be your self - that is who you are - U don't need to pretend to be someone you are not.. That's how you should be accepted - for who you are !

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Keep going to crowded areas and try to speak to others in the crowd. Gradually you will be alright.

Answer 8

Happened to me too, when we lived in NYC. Sooo many people rushing around - lots of thoughts rushing around (Grand Central Station at rush hour).

Answer 9

Stop trying to figure out what I am thinking and you will feel better :)))

Answer 10

It is a social disorder that can be treated. Or you just need to relax.