Feeding On Pain Options

This thread is about absorbing people's negative energies. Something I realized recently, is that I seem to automatically absorb the negative energies of people such as fueled by the emotions of loniliess, irritation, stress and others. The people whom I relieve of such stress end of feeling happier and more hopeful..

The energy I absorbed became an appetite. I developed a hunger for it, eating up peoples misery, feeding on it.
But something more recent made me aware that, though automatic, is primarily effective while people are releasing cycles of that energy.
Simply speaking - I have the hardest time absorbing negative energy caused by bad emotions when ithey are supressed.

I went out with my friends drinking and confirmed for sure that I was improving my friends experience by sapping out their negative emotions. But there was one type of energy I just couldn't grasp. It was the suppressed emotion of a man's feeling of being left out. I tried to get him to lighten up by asking him what was on his mind. He wouldn't admit that something was on his mind because he has it supressed.

This ability is something I've never heard of. Are there any documentation on this kind of thing happening?

Barnard, that ability is well known in energy work, it's called empathic healing. Very well regarded by workers dealing with memories of trauma. When you absorb those emotions do you resonate with them (absorb anger, become angry) or drain them away? Any physical symptoms afterward?