As a Highly Sensitive New Yorker, I’m Resetting During Social Isolation
Suddenly I miss the same sights and sounds that once overwhelmed me.
Suddenly I miss the same sights and sounds that once overwhelmed me.
Here’s why a “bad” childhood and high sensitivity is a really tough combo.
“Toughen Up” is not an ethos.
As a highly sensitive person, I could not stand to see him suffer. It was easier for me to be the one in pain.
As highly sensitive people, we “see behind the curtain,” feeling and understanding what others do not.
Through divorces, stepfathers, and endless moves, I carried the weight of being the “sensitive” child, and the only one who seemed affected by the chaos.
Being an HSP involves processing everything very deeply — and that can be a double-edged sword
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