Watch Our New Documentary About Empaths, People Who Can Feel Your Feelings

Empaths claim to be able to feel the emotional, mental or physical state of another person, an animal or the collective emotions of planet earth and everyone on it. So if you feel the earth's pain – or have had a panic attack because someone near you was anxious – you might be an empath too.

In scientific circles, the concept of empaths is dismissed as paranormal nonsense, but in an age of unrest, narcissism and social media anxiety, as we all search for a cure to our woes, new age therapies are booming, with people willing to look past what science has to say on the matter.

In our new documentary Are You an Empath? host Hannah Ewens visits a community of empaths in New York led by an "extreme empath" – who charges clients up to 200 dollars per hour – to uncover the mysteries behind this phenomenon and find out if she's an empath herself, or if she’s just full of shit.

@hannahrosewens / @avantgrant