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Welcome to my new blog, Sense and Sensitivity. Many people I've met in my life have been a bit, shall we say, confused about what I mean when I say I'm a highly sensitive person, or HSP. In fact, ...

Instead of being self-absorbed or thin-skinned, turn your focus away from your own hurt feelings and give your attention to ...

Highly sensitive people move through the world like emotional tuning forks—picking up on subtleties most others miss, feeling deeply, and reacting to things others barely register. But to the outside ...

The people who feel most comfortable confiding in and are highly perceptive introverts will typically also be very ...

The meta-analysis of 33 studies, the first of its kind, looked at the relationship between sensitivity and common mental health problems such as depression and anxiety. Researchers found there was a ...