Do you get depressed if other people are unhappy around you?

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It really depends on the situation. If it's. someone I don't know who is upset about something completely unrelated to me (such as someone yelling at someone else into a phone while walking down the street), then no. In other situations, I am more likely to be affected about it, particularly if someone is upset at me for some reason. I'd say it's more acute anxiety than depression.

"Putting up a shield" for me generally means situational avoidance. And if I am contronted about something, I generally clam up in the hopes that non-discussion will diffuse the situation,

I ask What happened? Has it any influence on me?

If has: I am sad too
If not: I don't care

I do, but not always. Most of the time I can be in a crowd without picking up someone else's unhappiness. But last week a woman was sitting opposite me in the subway and I noticed her sadness, although her expression was rather blank, and also how it filled me with melancholy. Couldn't reverse it, was sad myself for a couple of hours.

People yelling on the phone, or snapping at someone in public, make me afraid, repulsed and I feel like hitting them or crying. It's one of the reasons I always listen to music outside, there's too much emotional info I have to consciously block out otherwise.

Constantly. Sometimes I can't handle it so I push myself away from that person.

Yes, I am extremely empathic and pick up on people's moods. My neighbors are not getting along. Even though they hide it, I can feel their negative energy sitting over in my own apartment. I dread when they come home now. And I like them both a lot. They are both great. It's really too bad.

No. I can become quite sad if I am informed of it, though. I don't like people to be sad because I know what a bad feeling it is to me.

I'd say I get this sometimes. Maybe it's just me being very empathetic but depression can sometimes seem contagious to me, like it spreads from someone else to me.

Sometimes yeah. Especially suffering elder people make me sad. I cried after seeing a picture of an old lady crying on a hospital bed. Even now, when am writing about it, I feel like crying.

When I was in nursery school, if one of the other kids cried, I would start crying too. Now I take myself away from situations in which people are upset because I feel like I want to make them feel better, but I'm afraid that if I try I might unintentionally make it worse. I think people probably get the impression that I don't care - I do, but I'm not really sure how to show it .

That's it for me, i don't care that they're unhappy, i just want them to stop becuase it's draining me of all my engery. It takes effort for me to be happy a lot of the time, i artificially raise my mood and my geniune mood usually slowly moves up with it, then something like this destroys it.

Even worse if they want to talk to me about their negative issues, especially if they don't want my input on how to fix it. Why would you subject me to your negative situation and bring my mood down if you don't want any help? Either do something about it or deal with it, quietly.

if i care about them

If someone is angry or upset, I start apologizing because I feel upset and guilty. I don't like it when others are depressed.