What can I do? That is my greatest gift yet it's my greatest pain. If I wouldn't be empathetically skilled, the suffering of others wouldn't touch me. I don't think that I can choose what is the essence of my character. As I am a woman and have built in me this quality I take on that role. People call it mirror-neurons and stuff like that but in the end, it is the capability to feel what another one feels and to respond on that.
I need a guide myself once in a while and that is hard to find. Where I can discuss and reflect what's going on in me and how I can protect myself without withdrawing completely.
For the role of men (who also are good empaths, I don't want to paint it all one dimensional) mostly male roles should provide something different from females instead of competing with them.
Does that make sense to you?