The Connection Between ‘Emotional Labor’ and Highly Sensitive People
“Emotional labor” is the exhausting effort of suppressing your emotions when you interact with other people at work.
“Emotional labor” is the exhausting effort of suppressing your emotions when you interact with other people at work.
Distress tolerance is the key to managing stress in a healthy way, which is particularly important for highly sensitive people.
An overloaded nervous system can cause many symptoms that practitioners might misinterpret and misdiagnose — so it’s important to be open about being an HSP.
We work long hours, endure toxic environments, and push ourselves way past our limit — all in the name of not looking “weak.”
HSPs don’t do well with being pulled in a million directions at once.
There’s always a “good reason” to be perfect. But most of the time, it just makes you miserable.
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