Website review: The Highly Sensitive Person
nattyphil discovered this in Psychology
•29 reviews since Nov 17, 2003
psychology, hsp, sensitivity
•hsperson.com
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SketchSepahi rated 10 days ago- From the page: "Dear Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) ...or anyone raising a highly sensitive child (HSC)"
BTW I will be AFK for a while but will be back ASAP. I just have to go with the FBI and the CIA to watch a DVD with JFK and BIG while eating BBQ KFC etc. BBL. P.S. GTFO- From the page: "Dear Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) ...or anyone raising a highly sensitive child (HSC)"
- varrimor rated 4 weeks ago
- Her book changed my life And those of you with negative responses: The author is not pushing anything for sale. And leaving a negative response without knowing what it's all about is not smart.
- health-matrix rated 2 months ago
- Are You Highly Sensitive? Find out with the self-test: http://hsperson.com/pages/test.htm If you score high, I highly recommend the books on this website, they can change your life.
- darkspoon rated 3 months ago
- THIS IS SOOOO ME
- Denmarkguy rated 7 months ago
- Like many things, sensitivity can be viewed in different ways. The trait described on Dr. Aron's site is neither a "hoax," nor does it have very much to do with the "getting your feelings hurt easily" sensitivity many people will jump to conclusions about. Recent research-- both by Aron, and by other members of the psychology and scientific communities-- have shown that being "highly sensitive" is a matter of how your neural net (nervous system) is "hard wired" from birth. HSPs have no more "choice" in the issue than people do as to shoe size, or eye color. HSP subjects tested through EEG or fMRI have been shown to use different parts of their brains from the rest of the population, when exposed to a battery of external stimuli. This particular trait is NEUTRAL (as in neither "good" nor "bad"), and HSPs are neither "better" nor "worse" than anyone else... merely wired a little bit differently. This is a useful web site (especially the self-test, which might help a few people understand themselves a bit better), but by no means the most exhaustive resource on the web.
- MissErica rated 9 months ago
- Highly sensitive person If you find you are a highly sensitive person, or your child is, then you need to be aware of the following points: * This trait is normal--it is inherited by 15 to 20% of the population, and indeed the same percentage seems to be present in all higher animals. * Being an HSP means your nervous system is more sensitive to subtleties. Your sight, hearing, and sense of smell are not necessarily keener (although they may be). But your brain processes information and reflects on it more deeply. * Being an HSP also means, necessarily, that you are more easily overstimulated, stressed out, overwhelmed. * This trait is not something new I discovered--it has been mislabeled as shyness (not an inherited trait), introversion (30% of HSPs are actually extraverts), inhibitedness, fearfulness, and the like. HSPs can be these, but none of these are the fundamental trait they have inherited. * The reason for these negative misnomers and general lack of research on the subject is that in this culture being tough and outgoing is the preferred or ideal personality--not high sensitivity. (Therefore in the past the research focus has been on sensitivity's potential negative impact on sociability and boldness, not the phenomenon itself or its purpose.) This cultural bias affects HSPs as much as their trait affects them, as I am sure you realize. Even those who loved you probably told you, "don't be so sensitive," making you feel abnormal when in fact you could do nothing about it and it is not abnormal at all.
