When you hear that someone is “highly sensitive,” it’s common to think they may be weak and fragile—someone who gets their feelings hurt more easily. In clinical terms, however, that’s not what high ...

Highly sensitive people move through the world like emotional tuning forks—picking up on subtleties most others miss, feeling deeply, and reacting to things others barely register. But to the outside ...

Highly Sensitive Person, or HSP, is a term coined by psychologist Elaine Aron. According to Aron’s theory, HSPs are a subset of the population who are high in a personality trait known as ...

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Are you a highly sensitive person? Do you know someone in your personal or professional life who may be highly sensitive? High sensitivity can be defined as acute physical, mental, and emotional ...

Just as kids need to learn how to tie their shoes, cook spaghetti, and parallel park the family car, parents have to learn to let go. Yet, sometimes, our kids seem so vulnerable that letting go is ...

I've always felt like I get overwhelmed easily and have been told I'm too sensitive. A few months ago, my therapist suggested I might be a highly sensitive person, or an HSP. It changed the way I see ...

Like introversion, high sensitivity is a scientifically validated personality dimension. And like introversion, being more reactive to your surroundings has traditionally been seen as largely a ...

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About 20 percent of the world’s population consider themselves highly sensitive. As a result, this topic is quite popular and has been raised both in the scientific community and in the media. Film ...