Is it normal that i feel so much empathy that it affects my everyday life?

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For a while now I have started to notice that I get overly emotional and can tend to mimic others emotions. About a month ago, soemthing happened that really brought my attention to how bad t was. I was on holiday with a friend of mine and a bunch of her friends that I hadn’t met before. One of the guys we were with got a call and was told his dog needed to be put down. Once I found out what happened and I had a moment to proses it I found myself getting sadder and sadder. The guy wasn’t in the room at the time but I was crying to my friend and purely just thinking about how horrible he must feel. He then walked into the room and asked if I was okay. At that point I felt like the most selfish person on the planet because why should I be so upset I berely even know him let alone his damn dog. Since then I have realised that if someone around me seems to be in a bad mood I get in almost an even worse mood than them. A few times when people have been really sick to I can feel sick when I’m around them. Its starting to make my anxiety even worse because when I go out I feel waves of different emotions when I’m with different people. If anyone knows anything please give me some knowledge. Google isn’t my friend with this one.

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  • anonymous192
    6 years ago

    pure empathy, possibly. pure empathy is rare and exactly what you descbribed. test how far it goes. it could just be very high empathy. try listen to some serial killers tell why they did it. if you can still empathise then thats probably it. watch hannibal, the tv show. its brilliant for one but the main character has pure empathy. he uses it to solve murder cases by looking at a victims and feeling what killers feel and it makes him want to kill. but research pure empathy, see what you think

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  • EnglishLad
    6 years ago

    There's probably a rare underlying condition here. If it is an underlying condition, I'd much rather have that condition than my own.

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