As a few of you already know, the uni that I attend is an old asylum, I also live on campus. So yes I live in an old lunitic asylum. Now the thing is I have always been hypersensitive to alot of things, peoples feelings, the paranormal and I have even had a few ESP like experiences that freaked me out as well as a few people involved.

Anyway getting back on track, I have always been a little depressed especially from the age of 14-16 but as I got older I got alot better. As of last year, when I first moved on to campus, I started getting really depressed and even contemplated taking my own life on occassions. I also became alot more introverted and lost alot of friends in the process leaving me feeling very alone, rejected and misunderstood. I just felt and still do feel that I can't relate to anyone. I actually feel like I'm crazy. This would have been the feelings of a lot of people who were sent to the asylum some decades ago.

I just started thinking about what could be making me feel like this and the more I thought the stranger my ideas got. I thought maybe, being hypersensitive, I picked up on the feelings of the people who once lived and died here. Alot of them were not crazy when they first were admitted but after being treated the way they were, were on the verge of insanity like I feel sometimes. I have uncontrolable fits of rage sometimes where I throw things around my room and just scream, I cry alot and feel an unspeakable sadness most of the time. I can't see why though...I have everything I want and I am doing what I want.

Anyway do you guys think that it is possible that I am picking up on the feelings of past residents and just the general vibe of the place when it was an asylum years ago?

I have also felt what you're feeling and I have even though about commiting suicide, but I never really blamed it on the dead. Sometimes I get very angry because I think there is no point to life, and that I never asked for life so why did I recieve it in the first place?

Its just strange how I start to feel better when I head home for a week but as soon as I come back I feel horrid again. Just that sinking feeling....I don't know....Once again I may be thinking too much and reading in to things too much.

We ought to form a club or join one that has already been formed ha,ha. I too have had all the symptoms you mention and I still get very profound depressions at times. However, as I have had them all my life I am beginning to see a pattern in them and when they come again I treat it as an attack from outside and go to "action station!" They are fearful while they last but they are a bit like the war-time bombing raids in the Blitz. You hunker down and known it will not last for ever. I don't live in an old asylum but I am very sensitive to the so-called paranormal and I am sure that this can lead to depression, especially when the depression comes for no obvious reason. Don't blame it on the "dead" by any means, or on anybody else for that matter. It is something we have to live with. However, by adopting a positive attitude to it and accepting this sensitivity as a challenge, you could get something out of it. As you say you feel better when you are away from that building I suggest you accept it as being your sensitivity it that upsets you. Why not try taking the bull by the horns and doing some objective research on thebuilding, while taking frequent trips away from it to "re-charge" your batteries? Just a suggestion. Best wishes, LONECAT

Im not blaming the ghosts so to speak (nor do I think they are living in my head like someone else), and I really do appreciate my sensitivity. I just think that maybe being sensitive to such things leaves me open to be affected by my surroundings and considering the grusome and depressing history of the place I think it might get to me a little.

But yeah, I try to get away frequently just to get a break from the place, even though it is a very beautiful campus, it still has a very melancholy vibe to it.

I understand what your saying and feeling as well. My story is a little different though. I have never been sensitive to anything around me I have been a complete science boy and not been bothered at all but i have suddenly become very perseptive to the feelings around me not only of my friends but also of places like the hospital i work in I love my job but suddenly i couldnt walk down corridors on my own id almost have a panic attack. Something i have never suffered from before. I have also now found out that that this sensitivity "for want of a better word" also runs in my family as my grandmother was quite a well known spiritual healer. I am know beginning to understand more about the world around me and the people in it. Without going through similar feelings of depression and pain i wouldnt have given it a second thought untill i started picking up on the feelings of others too. Have you looked into seeing if it runs in your family like mine. "i am still very doubtful about whats out there but the more i find out about others the more i might know about myself" My grandmother has passed away many years ago but i have spoken in depth with my grandfather about it who is a big believer in everything going and he says that my grandmother described it like a second set of ears that you should learn to control to help you and others. And if you dont want to hear it dont listen in that direction. Do you think i sound insane?[size=3]

I think it could be possible to feel emotions

Silverbirch, I would ask my family about such things but they have never taken them seriously. They are non-believers in the spirit world I do believe....so i dont know where I could have inherritited from....

Yes, A place like an old asylum will be houseing some pretty miserable energies and those sensitive/open enough will be able to pick up on them.

Whether your depression and feelings are from the residual engery of the building that is hard to say. It is always possible that it's nothing more than from the whole move to uni thing... leaving home/home sick, making new friends, dealing with exams and assignments - it can all be stressful.

However, the fact you feel better when away from the building is interesting. That's typical when it's other (residual or spirit) engery having an effect. That as soon as you leave the immediate enviroment/building you start to feel back to normal. The trouble with your situation is you are living and studying their fulltime, it makes it hard to have something to compare with on a day to day basis to know if it is the building or not.

If it is from the general vibe of the place there is a few things that can be done.

1. The engery from your room/living quaters can be cleansed - difficult as it would require getting someone in. Although I could have a go at this remotely myself.

2. That you put up protection around your self in a psychic sense so your energyfield is protected and not disturbed by the residual or spirit engery of the building.

You will know then for sure if the building is the cause or not. If there wasn't the slightest difference after, then I would then suggest you see a Dr.

If you are interested in these suggestions just let me know.

I remember when I first went away to school, it was a massive shock. I knew no one, lived alone in an apartment, etc. A lot of these feelings are very representative of anyone just heading out to school. I would try very hard to seperate your emotions. What I mean by this is think about it. Are you feeling sad because you miss your family etc? Or is it really truly an anomylous thing. Do you feel better when friends are around, or it doesn't matter.

I know this is a delicate issue and I would never try to say something hurtful, but you may be experiencing a recurance of you previous depression. Those of us (myself included) who are prone to sadness, emptiness, depression can have this easily exacerbated by new (and classically stressful) experiences.

I think the greatest pitfall we all have on this board is instantly assuming that every oddness is paranormal. Sometimes (in fact a lot of the time) the reason is in fact rational, medical, or easily explained. This does not mean however, that you aren't getting imput from ghosts or spirits residing in your uni.

While I agree with Anvil's suggestions, I would also talk to someone (a Doctor of some kind) in concordance with spiritual clensing etc. When one is feeling depressed enough to end one's life, it's best to use all of your options with post haste.

I highly doubt you are 'crazy' as you said you were worried about. Depression hits many empaths quite hard and as a result, we may tend to isolate ourselves so no other imput can reach us.

I hope I have not been too forceful or hurtful in any way. In addition, you may very well be experiencing some input from previous residents of the asylum (I have had a similar experience and it was very terrifying). My only point with this post was to caution against viewing this as a completely paranormal or spiritual situation, it is just as likely to be chemical and, as a result, dangerous if left untreated or unexamined.

I hope that this helps and that you feel better very soon.

Marty

Last year when I first started at uni I felt pretty down, which was fair enough, I had moved away from friends and family and all familiarity. But now 18 months later it is still going and and I can't quite put my finger on what has got me down, it just seems to be a rather gloomy cloud over the place all the time. I tend to feel alot more comfortable and happier in my visual art class because it is held on another campus rather than this one that I live at.

Either way I have already done some of what you have suggested, I have been to see my GP and she said basically the same thing about missing family. (I really dont miss them, trust me.) and I live with like 70 other students so Im not lonely. Anyway I cant think of an actual reason that I would be sad for....

This is from one of my others posts I put up when i first started posting on this site. For a while now I wasn't sure what this could be, however, recently someone suggested that I could be a pretty powerful empath, and its possible I am picking up on the emotions of spirits around me. Anyway, still looking into that.

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srcinc- what exactly are you feeling?

I pick up on many spirits feelings. My grandma's always happy when she comes in my house. She only comes to my house because I'm the only one who can feel her. Other times I feel sad, or upset, or confused when another spirit visits me. But I do believe that people can feel the pain and happy feelings of ghosts.

I agree completely Taylor, it's happened to me many times (more so with the living though, which is a different topic all together).

It can get quite scary at times. But also, sometimes it's nice. Just depends.

Well, like I said before, I wasn't sure, but lately I have been thinking of certain instances, like the one where I was in the cemetary with my friends. Thinking back, all I can remember feeling at the time was being overwealmed by feelings. Only way I can think to explain it.

srcinc

Well, once my sister, my mom, and my sister's boy friend, and I were watching TV when all of the sudden I felt really wierd. Like I was upset and mad about something. Then I had a strong feeling to look over at our other couch across the room. When I did, I felt like there was a shadow person or something sitting down on the couch just staring at me. I couldn't see it, but I knew that this ghost was not happy. Does anyone know if it's true that ghosts come to psychics because they can see the bright colors of our chakras?

An area like an asylum where people with all kinds of mental illnesses (including depression) were incarcerated and died is bound to hold all kinds of strong residual emotions, and maybe even spirits of ex-inmates in visitation. Any person who is reasonably sensitive is bound to pick up on this. It doesn’t surprise me at all you feel better when you are away from the place for any length of time and begin to feel a cloud coming over you again once you’re back. People fail to understand (or refuse to believe) that we are literally surrounded by a ‘sea’ of vibrations and energies but our 5 basic senses are not designed to pick up on them and the one sense we do have that can do this, the 6th sense, has almost become defunct through non-use. My wife and I have only just moved from an area that had terrible negative energies all around. When I first moved there, over 6 years go now, I was told by someone who had just learned where I had moved to that the place was built on ‘bad grounds’. I didn’t really understand what they meant at the time and shrugged it off as nonsense. After a year we got friendly with the caretaker (the place is an complex of 60 apartments) and he told us that during the previous 3 years he had worked there five suicides had occurred in different apartments. One of them was even in our block though I never found out exactly which apartment!

It was only some time after this that I noticed a small plaque on the outside wall of the pub built next door to the complex that said “Lollard’s Pit – The site where protestants were burnt to death for heresy in the 16th century”. As it turned out, the place where our apartment was built is the exact spot where the catholic Queen of England at the time ordered protestants to be burnt to death in a large pit. In all around 20 people were murdered this way. You can Google Lollards Pit to find out more about it. Anyway, this is the precise place I lived for 6 years! Not only did several suicides take place in the apartments, but I personally witnessed 6 car accidents taking place at the same spot right outside my apartment (well, 4 car accidents, a guy on a motorbike in a serious collision with a car – don’t know if he lived - and a girl run down by a car as she crossed the road). Another strange thing happened when me and my wife got married in Thailand in November 2004. She is Thai and a Buddhist so a few days after our wedding we arranged to visit one of the Buddhist temples in her town to get blessed by one of the monks. These are the guys who wear orange robes and have shaved heads and spend all day meditating and praying. The town folk even bring them food and drink every morning so they are able to dedicate more of their time to prayer and meditation. Anyway, as he blessed us he repeated some chants in Thai and tied cords around our wrists and sprinkled us with water. Afterwards he spoke a few lines to my wife in Thai. When we left the temple I asked my wife what he had said. She told me that he had told her we would have a good life together but one thing we must do is move away from the place where we live. I asked his reasons for saying this and she told me he would only say the place had very bad energy surrounding it. He told her that some places like this you can put right with certain ceremonies and blessings but this was not possible where we lived and our only solution would be to move away from it.

Well, in March this year we did just that and have both felt an anxiety and feeling of oppression lifted from us. It is amazing how getting away from that place has had such an positive affect on both of us. I genuinely believe places have good and bad energies and if you are living in a place with particularly bad energies it is inevitable it will effect you.

If I were you Insecurity, I would do the same. See if you can find a place to rent near your Uni. Maybe your place is like our old place, it can’t be put right and you just need to put some distance between you and it!