I spent the next 30 years on a journey to transform what had seemed like a terrible weakness into a powerful ability to work with energy. It is more that you perceive them more easily. Richard O'Neill is proud to be a highly sensitive person. Cubicles = good. Part of HuffPost Wellness. Or are they the same thing? Zeff says that many highly sensitive people enjoy working from home or being self-employed because they can control the stimuli in their work environments. If you’re a highly sensitive person, you may find other people just don’t understand your experience. On her blog, Saskia Klaaysen mentions that the biggest challenge for an introvert HSP & HSS is that it can be challenging to find the balance between under-excitation due to few new experiences and being overwhelmed due to too much activities and over-stimulation. Just like highly sensitive people tend to prefer solo workouts, they may also prefer solo work environments. This is exactly the condition I’ve experienced and other highly sensitive people have said the same to me. These terms were first coined by psychologists Elaine Aron and Arthur Aron in the mid-1990s and interest in the concept has continued to grow tremendously since then. It is also possible to overreact to daily stressors or relationship issues, particularly if you become emotionally aggressive as a response. In the 1980s, British researcher Michael Shallis surveyed hundreds of people who claimed to be electrically sensitive and the results were quite interesting as for starters most of them were women and what's more, they exhibited the same traits and behaviors as HSPs. Where are the books where you have written about them? A highly sensitive person (HSP) is a term for those who are thought to have an increased or deeper central nervous system sensitivity to physical, emotional, or social stimuli. Some refer to this as having sensory processing sensitivity, or SPS for short. People who are highly sensitive will react more in a situation. David from Kingston on September 17, 2015: very interesting article. All rights reserved. Dabrowski studied gifted children and identified five areas of extreme intensity that he termed "over-excitablities," or more appropriately to this article, "supersensitivities.". Richard J ONeill (author) from Bangkok, Thailand on September 10, 2012: Hello and Thanks for those kind words Meloncauli! Theoretical thinking Couldn't tick any box, all of them described me. As an introvert highly sensitive person AND high sensation seeker, you love to try no activities and to live a life full of variety and new experiences. Here are some of the qualtiies Dabrowski found for these people: Impulsive behavior Daydreaming, Anxiety They may also be stressed by things that may roll off of other people’s backs. When I found out that I am highly sensitive, I could not read enough about the trait. The similarity is unquestionable and this "orchid child" discovery only serves to strengthen my sense of hope for the future of HSPs.

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