By contrast, many who claim to be empathic are, in reality, anything but. I know one person who says she’s an empath, says she takes on the pain of everyone around her… yet she can never read the room to decipher the moods of the folks in it, and therefore often comes across as a clod. In reality she’s an emotional vampire, feeding off the pain of others.

So be sure that being too empathic is the actual issue before charging down this path.