The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Surivive and Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

(As you understand now, arousal does not have to be anxiety, so do not accept the label “anxiety prone.” Arousal can just be overstimulation.)

You have your own skills—talking seriously, listening well, allowing silences in which deeper thoughts can develop.

Look back at your own love history. Has low self-esteem played a role?

Another way to understand all of this advice is to remember how we began this chapter, by appreciating that your infant/body’s earliest and still most basic need is to be held and protected from overstimulation. On that strong basis, you can go out and explore, feeling secure about that safe harbor of the good caretaker’s arms. If you think about i

Close Relationships Between Two HSPs

Finally, there is a new breed of religious beings seeking direct experience, not the lessons of authorities. At the same time, they know that for some reason others have different experiences, so they do not try to proclaim their experience as Truth. They may be the first humans to have to live with a direct spiritual knowledge that is recognized a

Also, while you go out into the world unconsciously seeking that long-desired security, without extensive experience with what you seek, you often repeat the same old mistakes, choosing again and again the same familiar sort of person who makes you feel insecure.

Statistical analyses of the influence of family environment on different children in the same family show no overlap. Your brothers or sisters lived a totally different childhood. You had different positions in the family, different early experiences, even in a sense different parents, given how adults change with circumstances and age. Finally, yo

HSPs are prone to see all the details, all the implications, of a threatening experience.