Picking up energy from people

I work with women on a one to one basis.
At the end of the day my degree of exhaustion (or not) depends on who I have seen.
I used to have one woman who left me like a limp rag. A perfectly nice pleasant person who, incidentally, had the same effect on a colleague.

Yes indeed I find some people can have this effect. I once had a member of staff who was like a bouncy puppy, barely sat at his desk all day, whizzing around the place shouting and generally being very jolly and upbeat but my was he exhausting. I had a little word during supervision and he did calm down a bit but I moved on. I do thank him though as he taught me to do spreadsheets which was vital to m in my jobs and at home.

I am sensitive to these overbearing talkative types too. The secretary of our WI is one of them, expect every phone call to be at least 45 minutes with many deviations!
I've also had several of those talk-without-drawing-breath people in my life, utterly draining. And they NEVER ask you about your life!

Chewy I agree about the male voice thing.
I listen to a lot of audio books, sometimes just because I find that they calm me down.
My favourite female voice is Juliet Stevenson. I download pretty much any thing she reads, iregardless of the subject matter.

ineedamum
It sounds like you could be an empath.
See also 'Highly Sensitive Person'
(It is a thing, I'm definitely one).
Just thought of another male voice to add to the list - Joss Ackland.

Re extrovert/ introvert.
I recommend that everyone does the Myers-Briggs test. It's fascinating and very accurate.
Google '14 personality types'.
I'm an INFJ which is the rarest type.
I am pathetically proud of this!

Fenella Fielding! What a woman!
Carry on Screaming is by far my favourite Carry On. (No Sid James or Barbara Windsor.)
Best male voice- Roger Allam
(Swoons.)

Starblaze, very interesting! I did the test (not sure it's accurate though) and came out 'The Logician' but only 53% introverted. I'm surprised, as I always thought I was much more of an introvert.

I find I can pick up phone and two people in my family talk non stop without coming up for air in a one sided conversation. One even does the mannerisms of someone she is talking about as if I can see the face mannerisms. Does anyone else have these one sided conversations. I can put phone down and get a drink to come back and they are still talking at me, not even realising I am elsewhere.lol

Fenella Fielding purred! Yes, start a thread MissA. We could do with some light relief.

I'd better make a separate thread.
Sorry!

I used to love Fenella Fielding's voice in "Carry on Screaming".

Just realised.... only men in my list. Can't think of any woman's voice that I find soothing or calming.

I refer to such people as ‘dementors’.

Tom Conti, Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins and Peter Ustinov all had/have beautiful soothing voices. <<zzzzzz>>

I was going to make a thread (post?) about peoples voices, and who qualifies as having a lovely speaking voice.

David Attenborough for me. Is that how you spell it? It looks too long.

Yes, some people just drain you!

On the other hand, very occasionally someone has a voice which is soothing, lovely and can send a tingly feeling through you, starting with your scalp. Just lovely.

I think it's called autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR

Radiators or drains.

We call them oxygen thieves ?
Never happy unless they're miserable!

Chewbacca
We call them oxygen thieves ?

Some people cheer you up when they arrive, some cheer you up when they leave.

ineedamum people are like plumbing: some are radiators and some are drains.

Thank you, I'm definitely an introvert. I was surprised with this person as it happens within minutes of when she speaks, but the effects calm down quickly.

I also find negative people draining. I spoke to a neighbour for first time, never again, starving you of oxygen is a fabulous phrase,

Absolutely. I knew someone like this. She was so loud, so dramatic and pessimistic, she overwhelmed me and once nearly reduced me to tears - I couldn't cope with her vehemence.

I've known people whose negativity has drained energy from me. I shared an office with one for a few years and it was exhausting. I would go in to work feeling upbeat, but leave feeling fed up and tired, because of her constant moaning and complaining about everything.

People who make you (well, me anyway) laugh, who have a positive outlook, and who are more often in a good mood than a bad one are energy givers, whilst 'moaning myrtles' drain it away.