I know that people with BPD are hyper-sensitive in a lot of ways, and there have been studies that have shown that when we're not depressed, we have better recognition of emotion in faces than the normal population (possibly being tied to greater \[emotional\] empathy). 

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But does anyone ever feel like they can *physically* empathize with people? When someone's sad I can definitely feel the emotion in myself, but I also feel like I can't watch violence/ torture/ horror movies without cringing as if the painful thing is actually happening to me. When I paid closer attention to this, I realize that I can sort of *feel* things when I watch other people feeling them -- like if they are poked, I almost feel as if I am also being poked (just a subtle example of what I mean- I don't tend to notice "feeling it" unless it's in the extremes, like watching a horror movie). 

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I just want to know if anyone else can relate to this. Maybe this is a reason why BPD people tend to "mirror" people so much and take on their other traits??

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