Highly sensitive people are people with a particular level of emotionality and with a high degree of sensitive stimulation. They live intensely each of their experiences, both positive and negative, which is incomprehensible in most cases for the rest of the people. It is for this reason that they suffer a lot to feel and live as they do.
In this Psychology-Online article we will describe in a little more detail what characterizes hypersensitive people and how to treat them.
Index
- What are highly sensitive people
- Characteristics of hypersensitive people
- Highly sensitive people and love
- How to treat hypersensitive people
What are highly sensitive people.
Highly sensitive people are people, as the name suggests, who have a high degree of general sensitivity. In the words of Karina Zegers from Beijl, these are people with a "finer nervous system, more developed than most people ". From 15 to 20% of the population can be diagnosed as highly sensitive.
Elaine aron coined, in the mid-1990s, the termPAS to refer to this group of people who present a sensitivity greater than normal. The term has also recently been coined NAS to refer to children with such characteristics.
Characteristics of hypersensitive people.
According Elaine Aron, highly sensitive peoplePAS) simultaneously present the following four characteristics, summarized in the acronyms D.O.E.S .:
- Information processing depth (Dept of processing): They are very thoughtful people who delve into every detail of the stimuli received.
- Great emotionality and empathy (Emotional Reactivity and Empathy): they have high levels of empathy and live their emotions very intensely.
- Sensitivity to subtleties (Sensing the Subtle): they have a special ability to perceive details in everything they perceive
- Over stimulation or saturation (Overstimulation): precisely because of the three previous characteristics, they tend to feel over stimulated when reacting in such a constant, intense and profound way in each of the interactions that take place in your life
In addition to these four basic requirements or symptoms of highly sensitive people, the PAS it is possible that they also present some of these characteristics:
- They may be shy or introverted.
- They present one toHigh sensitivity towards art and nature, areas in which they are able to perceive and create in great detail aspects of great beauty and depth.
- Their sensitivity and empathy leads them to worry and take an interest in humanitarian issues And social
- Like clearly perceive beautyThey have a great radar to detect the subtleties and inconsistencies of the world.
- They live the emotions in a very deep and intense.
- They look very affected by stimulation excessive (bright lights, loud noises, and strong odors).
- Present difficulties perceiving your limits personal, to self-manage emotionally and be assertive.
They are people who can enjoy, at levels incomprehensible to the rest of the world, aspects of this world related to beauty, perfection of nature, etc. However, on the other hand, they suffer greatly from feeling continually overstimulated and as a result of perceiving details that are apparently imperceptible to others. For example, they can be ecstatic and excited when contemplating some landscape of nature and, on the other hand, they can be blocked before some hostile situation, before a large number of people, before a place with sounds, smells or intense music and strong,...
There are currently several tests to diagnose this trait in people. There are versions for adults and for children. They can be easily accessed on the internet. Some of the pages where you can find some of them is on the website of Pasespana and on the website of Karina Zegers from Beijl, among other. In this article, we help you know if you are a hypersensitive person.
Highly sensitive people and love.
It is said that highly sensitive people they tend to fall in love easily. It could be interpreted as that, due to their ability to perceive subtleties, quickly and continuously, they capture the most beautiful aspects of people. Equally, disappointments often live intensely who suffer in their relationships, since their experiences present such transcendence that they are invaded by them with great difficulty to overcome like the rest of the people.
In turn, as they perceive the depth of beauty, they are sensitive to the negative aspects of people so that, once these are perceived details, they may be overwhelmed by them without being able to soberly attribute their relative importance to the whole of the person.
How to treat hypersensitive people.
After seeing the characteristics of hypersensitive people, we will see how to treat hypersensitive people by offering advice for highly sensitive people and outlining therapy for highly sensitive people.
Understanding
To help hypersensitive people the most important thing is understand and accept how they are and the different way in which they process the information around them. One of the biggest obstacles faced by this group of people is the misunderstanding that received from the rest of the world by being considered "rare" due to the peculiarities of their speeches and behaviors.
Protection
It's about a personality trait, not from any disease that needs to be cured. Therefore, and despite the fact that it can be a great hindrance to many affected people in many of their daily situations, it is essential to integrate and accept these characteristics as part of oneself, protect yourself in those factors of greater susceptibility and enrich all those other aspects that can contribute beautiful personal experiences and dedication to others.
Change of perspective
In a personal capacity and addressing directly to people who present this personality trait, I would tell them not to perceive themselves according to the parameters established in this world, but according to the virginity of its essence, which preserves practically intact the archetypal and inherent characteristics of being human. What if PAS were people who actually perceive the world as it is and it happened that the rest of the world has lost those capacities adapting and integrating correctly everything established in our world? Maybe for this very highly sensitive people react positively to all the real beauty in this world and their souls suffer when they perceive situations or artificial stimulation and totally alien to the essence of the human being. Maybe, just maybe, be it so ...
This article is merely informative, in Psychology-Online we do not have the power to make a diagnosis or recommend a treatment. We invite you to go to a psychologist to treat your particular case.
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Bibliography
- Zegers de Beijl, K. (2013). High sensitivity. Live from the heart.
