Yes it's a fact that life events have more of an impact on us. Were someone else might be bothered we might be upset. Where someone else might think some scenery is beautiful we might be in complete awe and feel connected to the universe. Where someone else might feel sorry for a person we might completely take it on as our own.
I said to my pdoc that poor old me don't always want to be more profoundly effected by circumstances than other people and she said that it is basically just going to be like that, it is bipolar, things just effects us more deeply.
Come to think about it, on which ever end of the scale, isn't it amazing that possess a heightened sense of feeling?