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

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Reframing.You must actively reframe much of your past in the light of knowing you came into the world highly sensitive.So many of your "failures" were inevitable because neither you nor your parents and teachers, friends and colleagues, understood you.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.

Is it possible you just have feelings, and loud noises… are annoying?” I reply. (Maybe I’m less empathic than I think.) A human with a particularly high measure of SPS is considered to have "hypersensitivity", or be a highly sensitive person ( HSP). [2] [3] The terms SPS and HSP were coined in the mid-1990s by psychologists Elaine Aron and her husband Arthur Aron, who developed the Highly Sensitive Person Scale (HSPS) questionnaire by which SPS is measured. [3] Other researchers have applied various other terms to denote this responsiveness to stimuli that is seen in humans and other species. [4]

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From "Adult shyness: ..." (2005): SPS doesn't inherently possess shyness' fear of negative social evaluations. This particular book by cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist Tom Falkenstein provides the first psychological guide specifically for highly sensitive men and their loved ones.

Smolewska et al. (2006): Aesthetic Sensitivity (AES, having greater awareness of beauty), Low Sensory Threshold (LST, easily unpleasantly aroused by external stimuli), and Ease of Excitation (EOE, easily overwhelmed by stimuli); results showing the (unidimensional) HSP Scale was "a valid and reliable measure of the construct of SPS"). Liss et al. (2008). According to Psychology Today, HSPs make up about 15 to 20% of the population. These persons are those who have nervous systems with increased sensitivity to physical, emotional, and social stimuli. This often leads to them experiencing sensory overreaction and overload.a b c d Aron, E. N.; Aron, A.; Davies, K. (2005). "Adult shyness: The interaction of temperamental sensitivity and an adverse childhood environment" (PDF). Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 31 (2): 181–197. doi: 10.1177/0146167204271419. PMID 15619591. S2CID 1679620. Note 3 (p. 195) cites Chen et al. (1992) re social and cultural unacceptability adding to environmental stressors. If you answered more than fourteen of the questions as true of yourself, you are probably highly sensitive. But no psychological test is so accurate that an individual should base his or her life on it. We psychologists try to develop good questions, then decide on the cut off based on the average response. From "The Clinical Implications of Jung's Concept of Sensitiveness" (2006): innate sensitiveness (Jung), Todd, R. M.; Ehlers, M. R.; Muller, D. J.; Robertson, A.; Palombo, D. J.; Freeman, N.; Levine, B.; Anderson, A. K. (2015). "Neurogenetic Variations in Norepinephrine Availability Enhance Perceptual Vividness". The Journal of Neuroscience. 35 (16): 6506–6516. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4489-14.2015. PMC 6605217. PMID 25904801. ● Castillo, Stephanie (May 8, 2015). "The Highly Sensitive Person: Emotional Sensitivity May Stem From A Person's Genes, Enhancing The Way They See The World". Medical Daily (IBT Media). Archived from the original on May 11, 2015.