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Why You're Exhausted: The Science Behind Being a Human Antenna

The complete neurological explanation for why you absorb everyone's emotions, feel disgusted in crowds, and need three hours to recover from Target, plus the actual protocols that work

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Dea Devidas
Nov 20, 2025
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Brace yourself, love, because if you think being a “better antenna” is a spiritual flex, let me stop you right there. It’s a neurological diagnosis that sounds like a compliment but lives like having 8K vision in a world still operating on analog TV. Your nervous system is literally an ultra-HD sensor while everyone else is running on Nokia 3310 energy-and then you wonder why your head throbs after 10 minutes at the DMV.

This is cosmic sensitivity disorder and you’re living it like having fiber-optic internet in a village where everyone’s still waiting for dial-up to load a single image. Welcome to hell. Population: you and three other people who also can’t go to Target without needing a three-hour nap and an emotional support animal afterward.

You don’t “feel” other people. You’re catching their neural networks in real-time. And THAT’S why you’re exhausted.

You’re not “empathic”: you’re unshielded. You’re wide open to every frequency like a pyramid without a lid, a Bluetooth speaker tha…

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