"You're so sensitive." Our HSP personality.

Actor Rachel McAdams said, "I have major anxiety about crooked pictures..."

Mandy Moore says, "I'll cry at anything, even a tissue commercial I'm overly sensitive..."

About 15 to 20 percent of us have this trait of high sensitivity, which nurtures our creativity and social activism, but also brings challenges.

Psychologist Elaine Aron and others describe it as a more finely tuned nervous system. She explains, "It means you are aware of subtleties in your surroundings, a great advantage in many situations. It also means you are more easily overwhelmed..."

How does being a highly sensitive person impact our feelings and our lives?

Also see the video with transcript and resource links at the Highly Sensitive site.
http://highlysensitive.org/our-high-sensitivity-personality-a-video/

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• hsps
• empath
• sensitivity
• creativity
• psychology

[TdrdenCO11]

Being an HSP is something I've just started to come to terms with in the last few years. It's absolutely exhausting. I love how all the comments on all the videos dealing with this subject are positive and affirming though. We might feel crazy but at least were not jerks.

[AdlerChalk]

This story sounds more like OCD to me!

[ohdoshutit]

when i fall for someone - i fall harder than anyone - i don't think non-hsp's can ever know just how euphoric euphoria can be!!!!! but, i plummet into pain and depression and heartache too much as well. i'm only 28, but i feel like i've lived five lifetimes of human emotion. it's so tiring. so so tiring for me. i have an attraction to sociopaths in part cos they lack emotional depth - like a huge chasm perfect to offload my overflowing flood of emotion into. lol - what a match!

[ohdoshutit]

@springrobin lol - many, many times i have wondered whether i may have some streak of autism in me. i am an HSP for sure. i have not been diagnsed with autism though.

[springrobin]

little speaks/splashes of dirt anywhere bug the hell outta me, everything has to be done in categories and on and on. I try to ignore it, I tell myself it's stupid of me, I was too scared to ever tell anyone about it lest they think I'm certifiably OCD! I'm not right, how do you know the difference?

[springrobin]

OMG! I 'HAVE' to have all the books in the bookshelf in order of their size, all the cans in the cupboard in categories & w/ their labels all facing front, & the writing on the labels all exactly matched up, everything like pictures hanging exactly straight, all angles in my environment matched up ...

[springrobin]

Does anyone know if someone who is actually a hsp is frequently likely to be mis-dianosed as a person with high functioning autism or some form of atypical autism, as I feel I have been?

[detriplea]

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