Are there any highly sensitive people here ?

[regular john]

?

 

[derekWest]

in wich way ?

 

[BlueButterfly111]

Yes, I am!

 

[sadalways]

Depends, if you meant emotionally sensitive, i used to be worse almost crying over anything happening. Now i think the meds i take killed everything off of me because i haven't cried in... over a decade. If i stop taking them though for a day or two i feel like i'll cry for no reason

 

[regular john]

I mean neuro divergent people with different nervous system

 

[maniac116]

Yup, I carry this burden of being empathic. Sometimes its like carrying a thousand pound weight on my back

 

[Aprilfarewell4]

probably most of us are, to wind up this way/here

 

[divinemistress36]

Yes, I cry and get mad over anything and pick up peoples energy unintentionally. I get overstimulated way easy

 

[ShatteredSerenity]

For those who aren't familiar with the scientific background behind highly sensitive people (HSPs), it's a theory in psychology that was developed in the mid-1990's to try to measure and describe people who could be called "hysterical," or "hypersensitive."

Testing shows about 15-20% of the population is HSP. It's not a disability, on the contrary gifted and high-IQ people are more likely to be HSP. It overlaps with autism, but only around 3% of the population is autistic so HSPs are a lot more common.

Here's a site with more resources from the psychologists who developed the HSP theory:

The Highly Sensitive Person

The Highly Sensitive Person: Books, Information, Self-tests, Events and Research

hsperson.com

Here's test to see where you fall on the HSP spectrum:

Highly Sensitive Person Test

Are you easily overwhelmed by your environment?

www.psychologytoday.com

My results:

 

[regular john]

People who are hsps know about it from childhood. They don't need tests

Yes, I cry and get mad over anything and pick up peoples energy unintentionally. I get overstimulated way easy

I don't want to live from one overstimulation to another
. This. Is genetic variation of nervous system. We don't have life experience that normal people have.we will die as weirdos. Weak nerves is huge disadvantage in life. Huge percentage of Jobs unavailable for HS people due to how their body is designed

 

[areyousafe??]

Me.

Curious as to why you ask?

 

[regular john]

I as a sensitive person struggle with depression all my life. We are even wired to surroundings differently because of how our ner ous system works and this gives you paranoia forever

Me.

Curious as to why you ask?

Because I wonder if they think HS people have reasons to kill themselves. I think there are reasons
Because it is not possible in my opinion to be happy as hsp in life. We were screwed. This body only resembles normal, healthy people and is for me completely unacceptable. Does it make sense to live in body that makes living impossible ?

 

[areyousafe??]

I as a sensitive person struggle with depression all my life. We are even wired to surroundings differently because of how our ner ous system works and this gives you paranoia forever

Because I wonder if they think HS people have reasons to kill themselves. I think there are reasons
Because it is not possible in my opinion to be happy as hsp in life. We were screwed. This body only resembles normal, healthy people and is for me completely unacceptable. Does it make sense to live in body that makes living impossible ?

I feel deeply and intensely, and am deeply affected by other people's moods and emotions. I avoid conflicts, and am a people pleaser, putting other people's desires above my own wants and needs - my personality traits contribute to my struggle with depression throughout my life.

 

[toxicjester]

Im this way. It's detrimental to my life and if I was even just half a sensitive it'd be a little more liveable. Having autism just makes it worse. It makes my relationship suffer. It makes my connections suffer. It's agony all the time yet it's seen as your fault. Or that that's "not a real thing" and that "if you were actually sensitive then being happy would feel really good also".

Makes me feel so alone

 

[Downfalll]

Depends on what you're talking about. I'm not sensitive to the fact that I'm alone. I am sensitive to the fact that I'm a boring/uninteresting person.

 

[theboy]

Of course
But there are always ill-intentioned people :(

 

[FoxSauce]

Hell yeah

Cries even seeing dogs having fun and being adorable while being ina sofa ( weird ik)

 

[Pluto]

 

[Namelesa]

Yea I am highly emotional sensitive. My emotions can change from extremes easily and I often can't handle things most people can. It makes what I am suffering with even more harder as I feel them even more. I feel like I can be an emotional burden on others which makes it harder for me to keep friends or relationships. I am of neurodivergence as I have autism.

 

[Hojag]

I met here more empathetic people than I've ever met in any other forum/social media. For real. Makes me sad to know they are all struggling, but maybe that's why they feel so down: because they care.

I see this as a bliss forgotten by society, but a curse for the ones bearing such weight; like world's pain. I know I shouldn't (and I don't) speak for others, I'm oversensitive myself. But I see how many kind souls there are here - and for that reason I wrote this little essay (no intention to harm anyone, by the way).