Bimini, I so related to your post. I always have the tendency to take on other's problems, emotionally. I have had to really limit reading any news, because I can get myself physically sick thinking of trauma other's have gone through. I don't know if it is codependency or just my "make up", but I always seem to attract people wanting me to fix their problems. I jokingly call myself "freak magnet." I once asked a therapist if I was just too sensitive (as I was always told by my parents growing up) and she said that there was no such thing. She said that my life would have probably been easier had I been less sensitive, but that I should embrace who I am . . . .