Squirrel

Thank you both. I was very hesitant about describing myself as an empath because of the 'modern' 'fashionable' 'buzz word' aspect. I don't usually have much of a problem with reflecting or imitating or just 'feeling' the moods, worries, feelings of others though it is fairly often that I have an insight into something or someone that I am pretty sure I haven't been told. I have to really think things through to work out whether I am projecting or whether I actually am sensing something. This 'my body is giving me physical reactions to someone else's stress' is not pleasant though ... and

Hello all, my first post so apologies if this is already covered (I have had a brief look!) or not appropriate for this section. My family and another are in a period of great stress and turmoil. My friend and her three children (2 of whom have diagnoses, both of my kids have these too) are to be homeless at the end of the month. I'm therefore moving my family out of the top floor of our (not very big) house and her family in .... This involves plumbing in a kitchen upstairs in what was my bedroom and sacrificing the use of our bathroom as Social Services insist that they have entirely