Explains a lot.
That just rubs me the wrong way.
Okay, I did not say this, but someone whispered this in my ear.
Maybe their is a gay gene.
Explains a lot.
...sounds like they watch too many reruns of “Monk”
PMS, ask my husband.
Oh Ane, Ane, Ane...what's that Billy Joel lyric? "Fool them all but baby I can tell, you're no stranger to the street."
It is better to be two sensitive than an unfeeling cold narcissist like Obama.
Small differences in genes can have a profound influence on behavior and attitudes.
The dopamine receptor has variability. Dopamine is your brains “you are having lots of fun” signal.
People with a large number of repeats in the dopamine receptor are less sensitive to dopamine and tend to be “thrill seekers” always “pushing the envelope”. If they got a thrill taking that corner at 60 mph - next time they have to hit it at 70 mph to get the same thrill.
Another victim class in the making....
I recommend providing unlimited quantities of free valium to these folks. It would be much cheaper than continuing to placate them in the manner that they have come to expect.
That waving schmoo freaks me out.
Sounds like some “therapists” need a new cash cow.
This was a big problem when I was a child. I had an older sibling who was not--who was, in fact, highly sadistic. My parents also did not understand me.
However when I became a man, it became obvious that this was a highly advantageous quality, especially once I began to understand it. Women love it. They came to me like a magnet. Until I understood this, I wondered by girls were always so crazy about me. Children and men also like this quality. It was a big advantage everywhere, including the business world.
It took me a long time to understand all this. I consulted a clinical psychologist when I was a teenager and got a job after school to pay him. My mother had a fit; she was embarrassed, afraid her friend would find out. I was smart enough to ignore her.
Later, after I had finished college and medical school, I consulted another clinical psychologist--an ex-marine--who was an enormous help in sorting everything out. He liked me so much that he wanted me to become a psychiatrist and go into practice with him. He and his wife became good friends of my wife and me. They visited us in our home. We had dinner together many times.
I'm sure that being highly sensitive has its disadvantages, but the advantages by far outweigh them. At least, they did for me. It helps if you're smart.
My biggest problems with it were having a highly sadistic sibling and parents who didn't have the slightest idea what was going on. I knew I was smarter than they were and proved it by finding my way out from under their confusion and disfunction. The first psychologist gave me the Standford-Binet IQ test, and I scored over 200. This was my salvation.
Being highly sensitive is like everything else. If you're smart, it works for you. If you're not, it works against you, and unscrupulous people will take advantage of it.
I love being a HSP. I have to take extra special care of myself but at the same time I am twice as dialed in in every way. Just have to make sure to bit the right sort of partner and friends. The wrong choices can sink us like the Titanic if we are not careful.
Former heroin junkies are also highly sensitive.
The brain secretes chemicals, called endorphines, that are the bodies natural painkillers. But even more so, they block the vast amount of nerve input to our brains, so we do not get overwhelmed by sensation.
But with addiction to heroin and other opiates, it dampens the natural production of endorphines, often to the point where they will never full again be in full production.
This is why withdrawal is so physically painful, because the brain is flooded with some much sensation that it can’t block out, that the body is overwhelmed. This is called “climbing up the walls”, and is a unique kind of pain.
Even after withdrawal is over, and the brain is again producing some endorphines, former junkies still get more than the normal amount of sensory input. This makes them a combination of photosensitive (to light), audio sensitive, tactile sensitive, odor and taste sensitive.
This is why they tend to be somewhat “jumpy”, like that other group of notoriously sensitive people, paranoids.
Don’t try to sneak up on a paranoid. They can often be very situationally aware.
ping.