There's a part of me that likes being an empath because it's very interesting and even fun and I appreciate empathy.

I feel like I'm an empath and people don't actually need to feel like they love me in order for me to have empathy for them. Sometimes I start to get a lot of feelings of empathy and it gets overwhelming. Well, if I'm just lying in my bed, I can let stuff cycle through me. But most people in the standard  workplace environment don't have that empath thing going on. I mean, if you're a big empath, you might feel the need to have a lot of alone time, I think. Because you're feeling a lot of things. And then sometimes empathy gets crisscrossed with hypervigilance and then perhaps being triggered into needing to protect the self or others starts to make things go a little haywire.