Chameleon

Intuitively, when I was a child, I would take on others' problems as my own. I would feel their pain...take it upon myself to solve their problems as though it were my own. I would not only empathize, but actually feel their pain. It happened naturally.

When parts of my body would come alive in shards of aches, I would get a flash of memory that this is the persons' pain not mine. Why did I take it on as my own?

How can I stop it?

Can we take on our entire family's pain?

Entire cities?

Countries?

The world?

The universe?