Empathy and codependency are not the same thing.
Feeling everything can feel like a curse until we do the necessary healing to be both empowered and empathic at the same time.
Empathy is dangerous.
Are you so sensitive that you feel like you need to protect yourself from toxic people or otherwise have your feelings accommodated in order to experience connection?
Being an HSP is not a free pass to victimhood.
While there is plenty of media out there about how people like us — the empaths of the world — need protection against energetic vampires, I have a different perspective that I would love for you to consider.