Learn to live with, laugh at, and love being an HSP: A Highly Sensitive Person.
Greetings!
Hi everyone
I just found this lovely website on my search for how to deal with being highly sensitive.
Today I learned of HSPs and it all clicked.
When I read about the characteristics of HSPs it gave me shivers...
so much is like me...
and maybe now i can stop asking myself "what's wrong with me?"
I've never felt like I fit in with the world.... for all 25 years of my life...
Like I'm just better off alone.
And yet I love to serve others.
I believe that my mom is also an HSP - she is the most caring, giving person I have ever known.
Being highly sensitive has been a 'burden' to me for my whole life.
I cry at the drop of a feather - I can't even carry on a serious conversation with a loved one because I feel so stupid crying as I try to get across how I feel. So most of the time I can only express myself through writing.
When I was younger I would write page after page after page in journals. Sometimes 10 pages at a time...of my feelings...because i had to get them out..and that was the only way I knew how to.
There are very few people that are close to me - but I love them deeply. My emotions are so passionate it often hurts.
I over-think and read into everything people I love do or say...and most of the time, if something is wrong, i figure it must be something that I did.
I often get "vibes" from people...and pick up on other's emotions. I sense changes in the air and it's almost as if emotions live there. I'm really not sure if that makes sense to anyone..... :S
My body tells me when air pressure changes or I smell rain before it rains. Sometimes...I step outside and the world just ... feels different. Quite. Like something has changed.
Things like this happen to me daily that I don't understand...and it has often left me feeling mis understood and isolated.
When I meet someone for the first time I know immediately in our first interraction what "vibe" i get from them - I don't judge them...but I can read them.
I am completely magnetically drawn to people I believe are part of my 'soul group.'
Right now I am finding my sensitivity is getting in the way of my relationship with my boyfriend. It has always been an issue for me in the past and has affected my relationships...but I always just thought there was seriously something wrong with me!!!!
I think finding the right person can reveal to you things that the past hasn't been able to.
Right now I am trying to find ways to cope with this MASS of emotions that I have and NOT get down on myself for having them. Often when I feel something...I know i'm reading too much into it and I start to berate myself...which leaves me feeling lost and worthless.
I'm so glad to have found a community of people who struggle with these same issues.
I've felt spiritually searching and alone for as long as I can remember.....
Know that this has given me hope that I am not.
Thank you and I look forward to all that we can show eachother :)
I just found this lovely website on my search for how to deal with being highly sensitive.
Today I learned of HSPs and it all clicked.
When I read about the characteristics of HSPs it gave me shivers...
so much is like me...
and maybe now i can stop asking myself "what's wrong with me?"
I've never felt like I fit in with the world.... for all 25 years of my life...
Like I'm just better off alone.
And yet I love to serve others.
I believe that my mom is also an HSP - she is the most caring, giving person I have ever known.
Being highly sensitive has been a 'burden' to me for my whole life.
I cry at the drop of a feather - I can't even carry on a serious conversation with a loved one because I feel so stupid crying as I try to get across how I feel. So most of the time I can only express myself through writing.
When I was younger I would write page after page after page in journals. Sometimes 10 pages at a time...of my feelings...because i had to get them out..and that was the only way I knew how to.
There are very few people that are close to me - but I love them deeply. My emotions are so passionate it often hurts.
I over-think and read into everything people I love do or say...and most of the time, if something is wrong, i figure it must be something that I did.
I often get "vibes" from people...and pick up on other's emotions. I sense changes in the air and it's almost as if emotions live there. I'm really not sure if that makes sense to anyone..... :S
My body tells me when air pressure changes or I smell rain before it rains. Sometimes...I step outside and the world just ... feels different. Quite. Like something has changed.
Things like this happen to me daily that I don't understand...and it has often left me feeling mis understood and isolated.
When I meet someone for the first time I know immediately in our first interraction what "vibe" i get from them - I don't judge them...but I can read them.
I am completely magnetically drawn to people I believe are part of my 'soul group.'
Right now I am finding my sensitivity is getting in the way of my relationship with my boyfriend. It has always been an issue for me in the past and has affected my relationships...but I always just thought there was seriously something wrong with me!!!!
I think finding the right person can reveal to you things that the past hasn't been able to.
Right now I am trying to find ways to cope with this MASS of emotions that I have and NOT get down on myself for having them. Often when I feel something...I know i'm reading too much into it and I start to berate myself...which leaves me feeling lost and worthless.
I'm so glad to have found a community of people who struggle with these same issues.
I've felt spiritually searching and alone for as long as I can remember.....
Know that this has given me hope that I am not.
Thank you and I look forward to all that we can show eachother :)
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Permalink Reply by Monique E. Muradanes on -
OMG!!!!!!!!! As I read your story I am sitting here sobbing because you have expressed exactly how I ve felt my whole life! Thank you Lord for guiding me here to this website. I have felt this way as long as I can remember from the time I was a small child but Ive learned to hide my feeling for fear of ridicule. I tried to convince myself that it was all in my head and that I need to grow up and stop being a "baby" about things. When I would feel negative energy from someone at first I would blame myself but as I got older I began to accept just a little of the gift GOD has given me. I know it has been a long road of heartache and pain but as I read the stories on here I think I will be able to begin to heal and accept, love and appreciate the gift He has given. Thank you for your story!
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Permalink Reply by Sarah on -
:)
awww
isn't it sooo nice to know that you are NOT alone?!
even just knowing that has helped me soo much in the last few months :)
embrace your gifts.
you're special and on a different spiritual plane.
it's not a curse. it's a blessing :)
so glad my story helped. good luck! and hopefully we can talk again soon!
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