Oh yes! That's really me! I am way too, too sensitive. I find that reading some articles about sensitivity on Psyche Central to be of tremendous help to me. There are few. If you have not seen them, then I would suggest you look at them. I have even contributed to the comments about it.

It does not take too much for me to react with grief when I hear of something that has happened to someone that's bad, especially a health problem. I would feel very bad even if a health problem happened to someone that I don't like very much.

I guess the reason why I feel especially bad about a health problem that happens to someone is because I think that it could have been me going through it. What's scary for me is that if something like that could happen, I wouldn't be able to handle it. I obsess about it a whole lot. Yet, people who are really in bad shape seem to be in control of it emotionally better than I am at just the thought of it.

I wish that I had a built in switch in my body so that I can just reach down and turn the "being sensitive" option off.