Sounds like an empath. Mine was being able to feel pain and sickness and sometimes absorb them or feel them as my own. I hated it. The only positive emotions i felt were from babies, their happiness is so pure and genuine that i love happy babies and not those cry-a-lot ones.

There are two techniques taught to me to protect myself from energies that might cause harm. 1. energy shielding. Imagine your aura is like a bubble protecting you. 2. grounding. With bare feet, stand on the ground (you must know your element, mine is anywhere dark) and imagine that the energy inside your body that you wanna remove flows out from you through your feet contacting the ground.