To me the most interesting part of this thread is the comment about someone explaining their own experience of being empathic. They describe their approach for handing it and that comment has been bouncing around karma wise for the last two hours.

My interpretation of what they saying is maybe different. There are people who are naturally more prone to mirroring the feelings they perceive through words, actions, faces, etc. In modern accepted terms, mirroring this behavious without reasoning or any boundaries in place would result in you splitting your experience. If you have no boundaries emotionally, physically, or mentally you risk being steam rolled by outside influence. This is a fairly well understood effect in psychology, even though the term “empath” or highly sensitive person isnt as widely regarded. In either case I think its strange that someones personal experience and they way they deal with it results in so many divsive comments.