What Is a Highly Sensitive Person?

What Is a Highly Sensitive Person?

Ann always knew she felt things more deeply than most people.She’s always been easily embarrassed, quick to cry and felt overwhelmed in crowded places. “As a child, I was called ‘too sensitive,’ a ‘crybaby,’ and ‘thin-skinned,” Ann said. As a result, she often felt inadequate and an “inappropriate amount of shame.”Today, Ann, now 63 would be described as a highly sensitive person (HSP), a term coined in 1996 by psychologist Elaine Aron, Ph.D., b…

High sensitivity also has advantages. Particularly sensitive children recognize emotions in other people more easily than less sensitive peers.