Difference between a Highly Sensitive Person and Borderline Personality Disorder | The Exhausted Woman

It’s so important to not self-diagnose!

Source: Difference between a Highly Sensitive Person and Borderline Personality Disorder | The Exhausted Woman

How to Set Boundaries When You Are a Highly Sensitive Person | Happily Imperfect

Source: How to Set Boundaries When You Are a Highly Sensitive Person | Happily Imperfect

Five ways to Support the Highly Sensitive Personality. | elephant journal

Source: Five ways to Support the Highly Sensitive Personality. | elephant journal

7 Tips For Dealing With Criticism When You’re A Highly Sensitive Person

blogs.psychcentral.com/imperfect/2016/05/7-tips-for-dealing-with-criticism-when-youre-a-highly-sensitive-person

Ep. 64: Oliver Burkeman Interview – Happiness & Negative Thinking

highlysensitiveperson.net/episode64

7 Ways Childhood Adversity Changes Your Brain (a response for HSPs) | The Sensation Seeking Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) with Dr. Tracy Cooper

Source: 7 Ways Childhood Adversity Changes Your Brain (a response for HSPs) | The Sensation Seeking Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) with Dr. Tracy Cooper

Videos: Elaine Aron on the trait of high sensitivity

Videos: Elaine Aron on the trait of high sensitivity.

Highly Sensitive People (HSPs)

You may have noticed that I have been posting quite a bit, both here and on my Facebook Page, about Highly Sensitive People or HSPs.  That’s because every person with BPD is an HSP, but not every HSP has BPD.  It is believed that BPD is caused by a HSP being brought up in an invalidating environment.

Dr. Elaine Aron has a test on her website to see if you are a HSP.  You can take the test here:  http://www.hsperson.com/test/  Dr. Aron has researched the trait of High Sensitivity and has even written a book on it called The Highly Sensitive Person.  She is currently trying to get funding for a documentary on High Sensitivity called Sensitive.  (Please see these posts:  https://makebpdstigmafree.wordpress.com/2014/09/03/sensitive-the-untold-story-on-vimeo/ and https://makebpdstigmafree.wordpress.com/2014/09/02/sensitive-the-untold-story/ )

SENSITIVE – The Untold Story on Vimeo

SENSITIVE – The Untold Story on Vimeo.

Sensitive: The Untold Story

with Dr. Elaine Aron, Ph.D.

Part One:

Part Two:

How Positive Thinking Can Be a Crock

Write into the Light

On a path to clearer views, I find myself looking up and realizing that life is nothing more than an illusion of what my mind (ego) tells me it is.

I am baffled by people who are always up-beat and positive; who love life even when things are tough; who see the good in even the most painful events.

I am writing this post and my husband, who is in the other room, just started taping up some boxes he needs to mail. Now, all I can pay attention to is the god-awful screeching sound of the tape being pulled from the tape-gun as he wraps it around the damn boxes! Like nails on a chalk board, I tell ya!

ok, I think he is finished. Like I was saying, my reality is nothing more than what my mind tells me it is. Let’s look at my outburst about the…

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Sense and Sensitivity

English: Pearl Buck, Pulitzer Prize-winning American author (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

An excellent blog at Psychology Today.

A beautiful quote from Pearl Buck:

The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him… a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create—so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.

Read more here:

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sense-and-sensitivity/201110/the-sensitive-mind-is-creative-mind

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sense-and-sensitivity/201205/when-empathy-hurts-how-love-while-looking-after-yourself

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sense-and-sensitivity/201209/feeling-victim

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sense-and-sensitivity/201111/emotional-overload

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sense-and-sensitivity/201110/the-outside-looking-in

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sense-and-sensitivity/201108/making-sense-sensitivity

Are you sensitive.. or a sensitive.

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HSP  or ESP Myth or fact? or a bit of both?

oh, I so knew you were going to say that. *rolls my eyes*

likes it because it is purple.. lol

ESP… Extra Sensory Perception

HSP Highly Sensitive Person

HSP’s have more awareness or a heightened sensitivity  to their environments. They receive and process more information than average people on what surrounds them. They are  just more in tune with things, more aware. Even to the point that they become overloaded with it. HSP’s are not rare, they make up 15%  to 20% of the population. Are you one? An HSP will process sensory data with more depth, with a thoroughness, there is a difference in their nervous system that gives them this ability, or curse.  (more on this soon)

ESP, People that receive information that doesn’t fit in the normal 5 senses. They feel others emotions, feel energy or auras that may surround people, they may feel…

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