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Finding Therapists as a Highly Sensitive Person

By Jodi Clarke — 2020

Things like loud noises, drastic temperature change, crowds, or emotionally-charged situations can create distress because your system becomes overstimulated. You might also find that you have a harder time healing after experiences that involve betrayal, loss, or rejection.

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Highly Sensitive People

When research psychologist and psychotherapist Elaine Aron published The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You, many people felt a jolt of recognition.

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Survival Skills for Highly Sensitive People

Are you among the 20 percent of Americans who are highly sensitive? Here are some self-care strategies for you.

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Why Highly Sensitive People Make the Best Leaders, According to a Psychologist

Studies have shown that HSPs have more active mental circuitry and neurochemicals in areas related to attention, action-planning, decision-making, and having strong internal experiences.

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Highly Sensitive Person

According to psychologist Elaine Aron, Highly Sensitive Persons are a subset of the population who are high in a personality trait known as sensory-processing sensitivity.

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How to Thrive If You’re a Highly Sensitive Person: An Interview with Elaine N. Aron, PhD

I think HSPs should take one day off a week, at least one weekend every month, and at least a week every three months. It’s more downtime than most people might take, but you will be more productive, not less, in the long run.

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Highly Sensitive People: No Longer Invisible, But Now What?

I encourage you to try to eliminate the term "non-sensitive" or "non-highly sensitive" from our (mine, too!) vocabulary. I think we can say non-HSP to those who get it and do not find "HSP" annoying in-group jargon. Or you can say those "without the trait" or the "other 80%.

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