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Many years ago, while I was training to be an RN we had to visit a drug rehab and spend the day with some of the patients. From what I can remember this may have been an all female facility, or there were just mostly women there at the time. We had to sit in on a group therapy session and I remember listening to a few of the women’s stories which were all heavy and suddenly becoming absolutely overwhelmed with emotion. Like I couldn’t control myself at all. I ended up having to leave the meeting and in our debriefing afterwards ( still in the facility) I was still sobbing uncontrollably in front of my classmates and professor, completely embarrassed and not knowing how to stop. I finally just started telling them about some of the things happening in my life at the time ( which were serious), although I’m fairly sure those were not what triggered this intense emotion. This response was beyond anything I had ever experienced. It felt as though every person in that room had entered my body and all I could do was cry and cry and cry. It has never happened again, but I always wondered if I just absorbed all the sad energy in that place and have always wondered why. I am definitely an empath, but my abilities have never gone past this particular experience. Has this happened to anyone and/ or can someone explain what this was. Thank you!!!!!