I Am Empathic

The longer I am alone the more I feel like myself. When I am with other people I lose track of where my own emotions stop and theirs begin. It took a month of spending every day at home, with only trips out to the grocery store once or twice a week, for me to realize how much I needed to work on developing my awareness about this. Since this emotional detox, if you will, I have been much more able to identify when my own emotions being hijacked. I can't always stop it. But at least I can be conscious of the fact that its not all coming from me and so I can try to control it and even use it. Any other empaths out there have similar experiences?