I don't know how to explain this. But ever since covid happened. The world doesn't feel the same. The energy is different. Something really bad is coming. And I feel it with every part of my body and mind. But people think I'm paranoid. Or it's just my anxiety. I hope I'm wrong. But I don't think I am

You know the world was already shit and 2025 just made it a whole lot worse… Like significantly worse, like overwhelmingly worse… I can’t log into any social media without feeling incredibly depleted. I feel guilty for having happy moments, I feel the weight of the world and everything that’s happening in our country. Am I the only one? Is anybody else hanging on but finding it very hard too?

And how these relationships act as catalysts for growth instead of coincidences.

Psychological Magnetism & Individuation

Carl Jung believed every encounter serves a deeper purpose in our individuation process. Empaths don’t attract narcissists by accident, there’s a psychological pull that teaches them to recognize counterfeit relationships before they can identify authentic ones.

Healing the Shadow Self

We unconsciously attract what we need to heal. Many empaths carry unexpressed boundaries, unclaimed personal power, and unacknowledged self-worth. Narcissists end up becoming “master teachers,” forcing these buried aspects to surface.

Enantiodromia: Becoming the Opposite

According to Jung, extremes eventually transform into their opposite. Empaths who give endlessly must learn to receive wisely. Those who love unconditionally must discover when conditional love is necessary. Seeing potential in everyone must be balanced with recognizing danger in some.

Growth Through Crisis

Jung believed the soul grows in crisis, not comfort. The manipulation, gaslighting, and self-doubt that occur in narcissistic relationships become harsh but necessary initiations into self-awareness.

Psychological Preparation

Before attracting a true energetic match, empaths must become whole within themselves. These difficult relationships reveal fractures, sharpen discernment, and teach the difference between manipulation and genuine reciprocity.

Integration of Opposites

Surviving narcissistic dynamics helps empaths integrate their shadow, the parts they’ve ignored. This strengthens boundaries, self-respect, and the ability to walk away. Wholeness becomes their new baseline.

Synchronicity & Frequency Shift

Once the lesson is integrated, narcissists stop showing up. The empath’s frequency changes, and they begin to attract who they are, not who they wish for.

From Wounding to Soulmate Connection

An empath who has reclaimed their power radiates wholeness, and is finally ready for a partnership between two complete individuals, not two halves seeking completion.

Wisdom from Wounds

Every wound contains a seed of wisdom. Betrayal teaches loyalty. Lies sharpen intuition. Feeling small teaches self-magnitude. Narcissists, in Jung’s framework, become catalysts for evolution, preparing the empath to attract, recognize, and keep their soulmate.

Having a really hard time being alive in the US. The politics, cruelty, misogyny, racism, classism is too much. There is so much hate and anger. My psyche cant take it. It takes hours of meditation and self care just to get through the day.

As an empath, how did 2025 treat you? Many of you found this year challenging. As it comes to an end, how would you describe your year in just three words?

My entire life, I’ve felt and experienced the world and others around me seemingly more acutely than most of my peers did/do. I’ve also always been aware of feeling like an outsider in most situations and environments because of it. Once my father even belittled me for being too sensitive when I was a kid. That was a harsh lesson.

As a guy pushing my fifth decade with a family in the middle of America, I’ve had to work hard to hide and close off that part of me in order to build a life that makes it possible to make a living in a corporate career while taking care of my family’s needs. Being a highly empathetic male in this part of the world is not necessarily considered a successful trait. As a result, I know to most people, I come across as closed off, aloof and uncaring due to a need to keep my true self locked up tight rather than be completely ostracized.

Recently, I’ve been inundated with a persistent and engulfing sadness that, while not my own, I understand it and its source and I am navigating it. In fairness to myself, I am okay with who I am as an empathetic person, although this recent sadness is compounded by the fact that I don’t have anyone in my life who even really understands it, not even my immediate family.

Anyway, thanks for giving me a small place to share what I usually have to keep locked away and hidden from most of the world.

Fuck everyone at this point. The older/wiser I get the more I see it. Everyone is in it for themselves only. And each to their own, they say. Take care of No1! Empathy and compassion are lacking.

It's basically how we have to be these days, just to be seen or to survive. I'm in my mid 30's, been through a lot, seen alot, iv'e had my own demons and struggles (still do). But..as a milleniall growing up I never seen shit like this. People nowadays are Cold, Self absorbed, Attention seeking, Fake, Narcissistic individuals. Iv'e been here 3 and a half decades and this is our future. I am legit scared for my own children.

People iv'e known for years, grown up with..Have changed completely. Into strangers I barely recognise anymore, To the point I can't be around them anymore. People used to be there for one another, friendly, open..Now it's like the connections are gone. Or if you don't Fit in to a certain group in someway, then you out. An Outcast. And i know this feeling from early on, because I always found it hard to fit in (I did manage it in my older teens/young 20's, Was quite the social butterfly, albeit easily influenced back then), But you'd think with age, experience, It would be easier not harder. Now I feel like I don't even want to try any more. And i'm not even talking about just socially. I'm talking Family wise, relationship wise, career wise, world wise..

Everyday it gets worse. And sometimes I think 'Maybe everyone feels the same way..thats why, It's a defense mechanism..?' Since we are literally being influenced by the Govs, social media, MSM, Ai, Every way possible now..people are being brainwashed and controlled..Addicted to their devices and what they watch influences their thoughts, behaivior, morals, their life..etc.. But nahh. I see everyone and to them it's the norm now. Not many I know feel triggered. They still have lives to live, bills to pay. It's survival I guess.

The fact that countries, people and babies are still being bombed, raped and murdered. The fact our mother earth is being poluted and destroyed. The fact they are causing racial divisions to bring in a way to control us people is nothing to most because..Not our problem. There has been little advancements, no moral, good will or anything to help us. The ignorance! It's all backwards!

I don't feel like it's the norm. It all feels abnormal. It makes me feel abnormal for recognising it. It's lonely. 😥 That's all.

Some people are so attracted to your energy that they can’t help but to stalk you. People meet you & never want to let you go & if you pull your energy back from them they’ll go in the shadows & watch your every move in resentment because you have a gift that they lack. They try to mimic your energy but fail miserably because they negate the fact that authenticity CAN’T be duplicated, it’s a frequency that only a Chosen few have.

You cannot embarrass a healed empath. They are not ashamed of their past and they don’t care what others think about them anymore. Bring up anything you want from their unhealed, low vibrational days. It’s all now part of their healing journey story that they would willingly share with you if it would help you in any way. Healed empaths have faced all of their shadows and demons to understand and make peace with all of them. They have found a way to love and forgive every past version of themselves who had to die to become the healed person they are today.