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

When I began my research, I discovered “two kinds” of HSPs. Some reported difficulty with depression and anxiety; some reported very little of these feelings. The separateness of the two groups was quite clear. Later, I discovered that the depressed and anxious HSPs almost all had troubled childhoods. Non-HSPs with troubled childhoods do not show n

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

Close Relationships Between Two HSPs

Reframing how you experienced your past can lead to solid self-esteem, and self-esteem is especially important for HSPs, for it decreases our overarousal in new (and therefore highly stimulating) situations.

in peaceful times and under favorable circumstances, sensitive artists may search for the purest and most fitting expression of their deepest thoughts so that, during more turbulent and debilitating times, others can turn to them for support and a ready response to their bewildered questions?

go through an arousing experience before or while meeting someone you’ve loved? For that matter, after going through some ordeal, have you ever felt

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.

cognitive-behavioral, interpersonal, physical, and spiritual.

Or as one friend of mine put it, “In the first twenty years we are given our curriculum. In the next twenty we study it.”