Ah, read any Sci-Fi?
This was called 'Threshold Sickeness"' in MZB's Darkover novels!
When you are in puberty your hormones are released in a flood, whick stimulates all parts of your body and brain, including the part that contolls PSI ability.
For the next 4-8 years you will be in HELL!
Sorry :-(
Start meditation, martial arts, or study a faith or spirituality, your will need to learn to focus your thoughts and emotions to get through this time in your life.
Read all you can, take classes and ask questions.
Good Luck!

Hi Hannah,

Always first thing, is to remember that you are you, and that you are really OK. Second thing is to keep yourself that way by remembering to breathe. Focus on the area about 3 or 4 inches below your belly button, and breathe from there. This is how to stay in your body and be strong. Third (when you have the margin to do so) is to ask yourself this: "Is this thought-feeling-image mine?". Often it is not yours, and you can let it go.

Often the determination of whether it is yours will come from some subjective sense of the image being different. IE: taste or smell. Its kinda weird at first, but you get used to it, other folks thoughts smelling funny or tasting different than yours. Remember that you process your environment through your senses, and that same set of senses are much more than just nerves and neurons, but are your unique information structures as well. Filters for your environment, so that you make sense of it. Use what you have, for it is good.

Empathy is a lonely making skill. There is a certain level of spiritual responsibility associated with it. Its hard to find quality people to interact with, especially during teen times. Surging hormones and peer pressure are very powerful forces.
Always go back to breathing just below your navel when you are stressed, then you will find your center.

Welcome to your gift, Hannah. I would recommended you begin to get into a psychic and intuition class, perhaps one similar to the Berkley Psychic Institute, although there are better ones out there. Although many call her a fraud, I know people who have learned a lot by taking a Lynn Andrews course online. she offers great gifts to help shield and channel such gifts. Just reading her books, beginning with Medicine Woman might help. If you have a higher power belief, ask for guidance, then write down anything, anything, anything that comes to you. Begin to journal, and you may see a pattern to follow. Perhaps a Reiki attunement will help you balance yourself and allow you to stay grounded. Learning to run your own energy and shielding from others is necessary, as well as learning how to clear yourself of others energy for those times they get in, and believe me even the best taught people have stuff slip in now and then. Most of all, be kind to yourself. I also believe it is true this age is hardest for us with the gifts, as it is for any teenager and young person. but it doesn't have to be total hell if you get some training. Really, it can be fun and delightful if you work it right. Work is the key word...just as learning anything is work. Have fun learning, read books too. I liked reading Lynne Andrews when she came out with her first book, because she allowed us to see her many mistakes, how she turned them into learning, how she was laughed at and and loved by her teachers. She might help you set your emotions into a learning mode, and you can take it from there. Blessings of Love and Light!!!

First of all; What's happening? Why Now?

Well, you are growing and changing. If you're in high school then you are at a point in your development where a lot of things start advancing and going haywire, but it's okay. It's part of your adolescence, you just have a little more going on. Went through all that too, it was a really rough time so I can feel for ya. So that's my answer for "why now." everything you describe just sounds like a normal part of growing up...you are noticing the world around you with different eyes, your scope is broadening. It's a beautiful thing!

Second; How can I control it, speciallysince it seems tobe getting stronger?
Any tips? Advice? Something? Proof I'm not going crazy? Anything?

It's a tool like everything else you're equipped with. it's part of who you are. You will slowly begin to adjust to it, and then you will be able to use it [control] to enhance your life. It's probably a really crazy time, so just try and be calm. Meditation is good, and asking for help when you need it. I love to talk with God, we are very close and it's good to know that He looks out for us, when I need assistance I look for his help. Getting in touch with your spirituality is a great thing (not sure how you feel about what I am saying, but you will get help where you need it.) Spending time alone to recharge is also great. Just learning to be comfortable with yourself and your talents and abilities. I have met many a person that is not at all comfortable with being alone and by themselves. It's a weird notion.

Most of all: love yourself everyday. You are a unique and wonderful person and the world will offer so many adventures! Embrace what you have and remember that high school is way different than the way it will be afterwards. My husband and I both had such tough, awful times in high school but we have amazing, great lives as adults. It's a blessing :)

So it might be an awkward time for you...but it will be okay. Just find your strengths and cherish them :)
Lots of luck and happy love for you out there!

Welcome,Hannah! The members of this Tribe already gave you beautiful advices:) I too think that you should begin meditating, regular practice will help you find a balance. I know of others(me too) who noticed changes beginning February..So there's something global going on as well. Either way,you are blessed!..Anytime you feel too much pain or negativity coming from others, you can tranform it into something higher,it's a sort of alchemy, and you will discover it yourself.Just don't let all that pain and confusion succumb you..Oh and try to enjoy the diversity of information that you receive,it doesn't have to be annoying:) I'm hopeful that you will find the tools that work for you!
Peace&Love!:)

Hannah Dearest,

You are UpShifting...it'll be dicey for awhile, but things will get better. Don't buy into the bull-sh*t that you are special or that your new found psi are a gift, they are not, any more or less than are your eyes.

The reason it is happening now, --through the dominance of the Spiritual field of Mother Earth, who is UpShifting (these are special times on Earth), to which your MZL is keyed via your Samkaric residue, in turn creates your time-line reality...in other words..you are awakening. :-))

>trancey

What do you mean by this? You feel all buzzy? You hear a high pitched sound inside your head or ears?

>control it

You'll learn to live with it..you can't turn it off any more than you can turn off your breathing, so don't waste your time trying.

>advice

Sign up with a Mystical school such as the Hermetic Golden Dawn, or the Masonic Eastern Star, or "Builders Of The Adytum", get some training, let the teachers safely guide your climb into the Light.

The Mystic climbs through the night while the others are sleeping..the lonlier it gets closer to the top.

Welcome.

Love - tron

Hannah, fun to meet a new empath from the land of "Eh?" even if you're going through a tricky spot.

Obviously, it will be important for you to develop skill as an empath, as well as having mere talent. ;-)

From what you've written here, I can't make the kind of assessment that I would do in a personal session, but it does sound as though you're in need of balancing your life more. Don't emphasize tripping out as an empath. Do things that will ground you. (If you have a copy of "Empowered by Empathy" turn straight to the chapter on "Grounding" and add some of those items to your list.) This would include things like getting plenty of physical exercise every day, not picking things up emotionally.

Also, please don't explore woo-woo experiences indiscriminately, just because you can. Find a teacher you like and respect, or a book from a teacher. Community like the one here is wonderful for support and ideas, but this isn't a substitute for direct study with a skilled empath... or for common sense about doing what you can to balance your life.

Hannah, you're lucky. You've figured out you were an empath while in high school, not decades later. Once you develop skills they will be with you for a very long time to come.

yeah im the same way in hs but nobody knows that im an empath n its hard some times to block out things i sense things before they happen (death or events) i feel overwhelm when in a crowded room just saying ur not the only person out there