Don’t Be So (Hyper) Sensitive
You can’t just turn off hypersensitivity
If you’re a hypersensitive person, you’ve probably heard this many times: “Don’t be so sensitive!”
Simple, right? After all these years of crying at the drop of a dime, all I had to do was stop being so sensitive.
Well, who’d have thunk it?!
Seriously, though, it may interest all non-hypersensitive people to know that hypersensitivity doesn’t work that way.
What is a hypersensitive person?
A hypersensitive person is a term defined as follows:
A highly sensitive person (HSP) is a neurodivergent individual who is thought to have an increased or deeper central nervous system sensitivity to physical, emotional, or social stimuli. Some refer to this as having sensory processing sensitivity, or SPS for short.
In other words, hypersensitivity is a condition that makes your nervous system more responsive to stimuli of all kinds.
Personally, I use HSP and empath interchangeably, though there are arguably subtle differences. But that’s another topic for another day.
Either way, HSPs are the ones you will often see crying over commercials or the ones who pass out at funerals.
