Empaths struggle greatly with identifying what emotion is theirs. Think of it as someone sends you an anonymous text. They just know it's a from someone. But can't identify who. That's how it is for an Empath. An Empath can hold a maximum of 5 emotions or more. The majority not even belonging to them. It's either gained by random strangers having a massive dump on you, or just seeing one person yelling in frustration. They can practically feel their anger seeping out. And in the end makes them angry later on as well.

I'm still trying to figure out how to avoid this problem. But it's rather difficult. Especially living in such a hate based world.

With this problem of taking in others emotions. It's actually hard for an Empath to know what is their's or someone else's. It's a puzzle that can't directly be solved.