Identifying with Empathic Tendencies

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An empath is someone whom can feel on an intellectual, or even physical / emotional level, the feelings of another person. I look to past situations and tendencies and how I related to them, and then I look to what I know now of Empaths. I do not want to characterize myself as being an empath because I've always been a very sensitive, intuitive, and emotionally driven soul. I do feel as if I am a sponge sometimes, to others emotions. Are they mad? Aggravated? I am too. Are they depressed, sad? Well I start feeling a weight on me as well, even if moments before I was fine. Even so, I still don't completely identify as an empath. Do I feel connected and KNOWING of others emotions and feelings? Yes. Do I get gut intuition on something, only to find out later I was right? Yes. I Know these people though, they are family, friends, co-workers. Wouldn't I be able to guess these things anyway? I Truly do not know. All I do know is that a co-worker is having a time of it, and last night I went from being begrudging but happy to just angry and sad. No real reason. I was diagnosed with bipolar years ago, but took no medicine. I do not have moments of severe highs and lows, hypes or mania. I get depressed like any normal person, but it doesn't last as long as I've seen it in those with bipolar. I believe it was a misdiagnosis. i know a lot about bipolar having had family and friends with it. I don't know, i've started to babble here. Not sure where I Am going with this.