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How to Deal with Sensory Overload as a Sensitive Person

By Jenara Nerenberg — 2020

Sometimes it feels like the world wasn’t designed for sensitive people. Here are ways to take care of yourself.

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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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What Is a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)?

While highly sensitive people are sometimes negatively described as being “too sensitive," it is a personality trait that brings both strengths and challenges.

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Elizabeth Scott
2020
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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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Jenn Brown
2019
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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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Elaine Aron
2015
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5 Ways Walking in Nature Benefits Sensitive People

Boosting your mood, your health and your creativity can be a walk in the park.

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Deborah Ward
2014
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An Interview with Judy Orloff

No one knows the joys and challenges of being an empath better than Judith Orloff, M.D.

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Laurie Sue Brockway
2017
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Obama’s People and the African Americans: The Language of Othering

To the list of identities Black people in America have assumed or been asked to, we can now add, thanks to this presidential election season, “Obama’s people” and “the African Americans.”

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john a. powell
2016
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