Do you feel the pain of others ?

[JacobEzra.]

I have a lot of empathy- maybe too much so that it becomes a negative quality. I get affected by seeing an insect hurt and I can't watch an animal hurt or killed without experiencing some fairly intense emotional pain.
I do not know the how or why.

I have similar problem. Though I do not care much for insects, I have sort of a phobia of them. But for animals and humans i got a problem. It usually leads me to feel like I am being taken advantaged of. Like when I go downtown, all the people asking for cigs or the homeless asking for money, money I do not have. And its a pain, because I want to help, but can not.

 

[chinu]

I often feel that others are a pain, yes.

That was the question, right?

Clear.

_/\_
Chinu