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What we are exploring: What does it mean to be a highly sensitive human?
What's new: How can a human recognize their highly sensitive and how can they live with it?
What we will learn: How can highly sensitive people show love to themselves?
1. Highly sensitive people (HSPs) perceive too much, they notice and react to all those nuances that others miss. But what seems normal to others, such as loud music or a crowd of people, has an acute irritating effect on HSPs and ultimately leads to stress (Airon E. 2014) [1].
2. The researcher * managed to establish that highly sensitive is a category, not a parameter. As a rule, you either have highly sensitive or you don't (ibid.).
* Franziska Borries of Bielefeld University in Germany conducted a statistical analysis of the differences between categories and parameters for her doctoral dissertation for a study in which more than 900 people took the HSP test.
3. Highly sensitive, what does it mean? The sensitivity threshold of the nervous system affects all human psychical processes, including complex forms of human behavior - their feelings and emotions [2, 3, 4]. Based on the latest scientific research and experiencing the high sensitivity of her nervous system, Dr. Elaine Aron * first described the concept of "highly sensitive" [1, 5]. In the Soviet, and then in the Russian scientific school of psychology, highly sensitive refers to people who are simply called emotional or impressionable, in contrast to people who do not react so strongly to environmental influences [6, 7]. People with high sensitivity react in a special way with emotions to the influence of the inner and outer world.
* Aaron Elaine (born 1944) is a leading American psychologist and psychotherapist, Master of Clinical Psychology at York University in Toronto, PhD in advanced clinical psychology at Pacifica Graduate Institute, and an internship at the C.G. Jung Institute in San Francisco. In addition to beginning the study of the innate temperament trait of high sensitivity in 1991.
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4. A special reaction to irritants. Bright lights of a night metropolis, a shrill siren of an ambulance, a sharp smell of chemicals in a hairdresser, a noisy company in a cafe, hunger, loud music, pressure from loved ones and public opinion, scenes of violence in films and many other things cause high-sensitivity people (hereinafter referred to as HSP) to feel strong tension, overexcitement, turning into irritation, and in some cases even anger and aggression. Irritation, anger, and aggression can be directed both at oneself and at other people. However, the listed irritants cannot cover their entire sphere; they can be combined in different quantities and combinations for each individual HSP. From early childhood, people with a very sensitive nervous system face enormous difficulties interacting with different societies or environments*.
* Do not confuse with introversion and neuroticism. Introversion (literally "turning inward") is the orientation of human consciousness toward one's inner world. Concentration on one's own thoughts, feelings, and experiences, results in a weakened perception of the outside world. Neuroticism is a professional term denoting a tendency toward depressive states or increased anxiety [1].
