I always knew I was different in how deeply I felt emotions. I can remember being in history class in 6th grade, and being shown video from concentration camps in Germany in World War II. Like many of my friends, I felt physically sick watching these. But I couldn't shake it after; every time I closed my eyes for weeks, all I saw were those images and felt the fear and desperation and pain that those people had felt. I had nightmares for months after, over and over thinking and feeling all the emotions of what I had seen.
Most of my friends were certainly affected, but only while they were watching the video and just thereafter. They were able to see it in the context of history and the importance not repeating truly horrific things, but they didn't actually have those people's suffering in their souls; they didn't feel that suffering in their own bodies nor have their hearts ache with their pain.
I could not figure out why others weren't as impacted as I was.
They didn't understand why I was tortured by it, carrying it with me all day for weeks. The camps may have been many years before I was born, but I felt the suffering as if it was happening right then.
If you are an empath, you know exactly what I am talking about. You can't just see suffering and not feel it. You can't feel it and not want to do something about it. And you can't just put it down.
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