A person who is a psychic empath has a rare and special gift of being able to feel the emotions around him or her as if they were their own emotions. People are born with this ability, and often don't realize they are different from most people until they are crossing over into the teen years.
 
This ability is not the same as the normal human ability of feeling empathy for other people. With empathy, people relate to another's emotions, but they do not feel them as a psychic empath does. Often a first step for an empath is learning to distinguish their own emotions from the emotions of others. From there they need to learn how to draw blocks to keep other people's emotions from continually impinging on theirs.