I have most definitely experienced this...living with my type A intense,driven, workaholic husband made life hell for me. I sucked up all of his anxiety and it took me a really long time to figure out that it wasn't MY anxiety I was feeling. He never would talk about work, it was an atmosphere he would bring into the house with him. But I do this with others, I connect at a very deep level with people where I can feel their distress even at a distance.

After all these years, I ended up divorcing my husband because the anxiety he induced in me made the bipolar disorder worse and I was continually unstable. I haven't had an episode in two years now where I was having two major ones every year before that which lasted months.

I live alone and I try very hard to limit my interactions with other people, especially the vampires. My boundary building needs work though

I took a strengths test (it is an online test that you get the code from buying a book StrengthsFinder 2.0) and I scored extremely high for empathy. So I look at that as both a gift and a curse.