9 Relatable Things That Drain Highly Sensitive People
If you often feel completely drained, you may have “energy leaks.” The sooner you identify them, the sooner you can fix the leaks.
If you often feel completely drained, you may have “energy leaks.” The sooner you identify them, the sooner you can fix the leaks.
Highly sensitive people may respond to stress in a very different way than other people — physically as well as mentally.
I lived 50 years of my life believing that my sensitivity was a “weakness,” something to be mastered and beaten into submission. I was wrong.
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Warning: Never say these things to a highly sensitive person under any circumstances — no “if”s, “and”s, or “but”s about it.
When I was in “overdrive” mode, it was like I was in a fog because I was constantly drained — and I couldn’t see the road ahead.
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