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Ep10: Are You Sensitive?

Get Lit With Becki Rabin

In this episode Becki talks to Haylee Katri, @thehsphelper, about what it means to be sensitive. They cast a light on what it is to be a highly sensitive person, and how this can impact how you respond and feel differently in different situations.

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Do You Cry Easily? You May Be a ‘Highly Sensitive Person’

“I keep tissues handy at all times,” says the 44-year-old engineer for an oil and gas company, who lives in Houston. Meet the Highly Sensitive Person, or HSP—someone who responds more intensely to experiences than the average individual.

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Elizabeth Bernstein
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Finding Therapists as a Highly Sensitive Person

Things like loud noises, drastic temperature change, crowds, or emotionally-charged situations can create distress because your system becomes overstimulated. You might also find that you have a harder time healing after experiences that involve betrayal, loss, or rejection.

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Jodi Clarke
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Is Your Child an Orchid, a Tulip or a Dandelion?

Michael Pluess says that highly sensitive children and people fall roughly into three groups: highly sensitive “orchids,” which are beautiful flowers that need very particular environments to thrive; hardy “dandelions,” which can grow virtually anywhere; and a middle group—the...

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Richard Schiffman
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8 Ways Highly Sensitive People Make the World a Better Place

Highly sensitive people might be different from the general population, but they are different in a way that could be useful—and perhaps crucial—to the function of society.

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GoodTherapy.org Staff
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Why Highly Sensitive People Make the Best Leaders, According to a Psychologist

Studies have shown that HSPs have more active mental circuitry and neurochemicals in areas related to attention, action-planning, decision-making, and having strong internal experiences.

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Melody Wilding
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Being a Highly Sensitive Person Is a Scientific Personality Trait. Here’s What It Feels Like.

Written off as an odd duck, no one mentioned that I was most likely a “highly sensitive person,” or HSP — someone with a sensitive nervous system who’s deeply affected by the subtleties in their environment.

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Juli Fraga
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Highly Sensitive Person

According to psychologist Elaine Aron, Highly Sensitive Persons are a subset of the population who are high in a personality trait known as sensory-processing sensitivity.

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What Is a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)?

While highly sensitive people are sometimes negatively described as being “too sensitive," it is a personality trait that brings both strengths and challenges.

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Elizabeth Scott
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How to Thrive If You’re a Highly Sensitive Person: An Interview with Elaine N. Aron, PhD

I think HSPs should take one day off a week, at least one weekend every month, and at least a week every three months. It’s more downtime than most people might take, but you will be more productive, not less, in the long run.

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Jenn Brown
2019
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Highly Sensitive People: No Longer Invisible, But Now What?

I encourage you to try to eliminate the term "non-sensitive" or "non-highly sensitive" from our (mine, too!) vocabulary. I think we can say non-HSP to those who get it and do not find "HSP" annoying in-group jargon. Or you can say those "without the trait" or the "other 80%.

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Elaine Aron
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