"If you take a step back for a moment, you can see how feeling responsible for others and having a high degree of empathic abilities can be an unhealthy if not dangerous combination. Empaths by definition take on the thoughts, energy, and characteristics of others, and extreme empathy, combined with an overblown sense of responsibility, can actually manifest in pains and illness that are not their own."
The article presents a point of view I've never heard before. It rings true to me...
http://www.wakingtimes.com/2014/03/15/e ... ng-empath/
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