My Best Life As a Highly Sensitive Person
Even as a young child, I always felt different.
My world began to open up the moment my mother discovered that I was a highly sensitive person.
My understanding of why I felt certain things more intensely than others or broke down in tears at the slightest provocation suddenly increased.
Life became easier once I learned to value my sensitive traits.
If you're a highly sensitive person. You can probably relate to how simple it is to feel overwhelmed (especially these days).
Thankfully, despite how intense my emotions may be, I have discovered ways to find more peace in my life. Because of this, I've had a lot better luck in life.
If you have a high tolerance for stimuli as I do, you could easily become overwhelmed and excitable. But when a friend needs compassion and a listening ear, they frequently turn to you first.
In the end, when they tell you about anything that has happened to them, whether it was happy or unpleasant, you tend to feel like it occurred to you as well.
Nevertheless, you are happy to assist them.
The daily struggles of everyone who is extremely sensitive are real.
Being highly sensitive means that many things in life are pretty exhausting.
I've been called crazy, neurotic, and somehow self-centered.
“Don't be silly’’ or “don't take it personally’’ are two phrases that have been part of my vocabulary my entire life.
My personal biggest accomplishment is getting better at managing my high-sensitivity nature.
People like me are extremely perceptive of both our physical selves and our surroundings.
For highly sensitive people, the environment around them is very important.
Since I was a child, I had a great imagination and creativity, which was also connected with my perception of my surroundings. When I'm outside, I perceive with all my senses, I notice details and colors.
My memories are associated with music or smells. And sometimes I feel like a sponge that soaks up everything around me, especially people's emotions.
At first, I didn't realize that I was taking on the emotions of others and it was very confusing for me.
I'm an empathetic person, so it often happened that I was sought out by so-called emotional vampires, which was incredibly exhausting.
Sometimes when I have many stimulants in a day, it takes me a while to process everything.
Because of my sensitivity, I really try to focus only on the most important things, like research and effective ways to reach the public—things that I feel are most valuable to sensitive people. I write blogs and offer assistance to people I know, which I find very calming.
I do not perceive sensitivity negatively. For me, it is simply an explanatory term that describes why I made certain decisions
As for my strong point, I would say it is intuition. I define intuition as knowing what I know without always knowing how I know it.
Naturally, Highly sensitive people usually have a highly developed intuition because their information processing is driven by emotions. We don't process anything we don't care about.