Sensitive people, what are they? What is a very sensitive person called - is it bad.

Sensitivity is a wonderful and interesting thing. Sometimes very sensitive people  they don’t understand how talented they are. It seems impossible to be a real person if you lack sensitivity. According to psychological studies, about 20% of the population falls into the category of very sensitive person. At the same time, it’s quite difficult to be very sensitive people, here are a few advantages to being a sensitive person.

1. Caring.

It turns out that sensitive people care more about the world around them. One famous person once said a beautiful quote that seems to be the motto of all sensitive people, “The more you care, the stronger you can be.” sensitive people  not indifferent to stray animals.

2. Sensitivity to the feelings of others.

Sensitivity to other people's emotions can be an important asset for you.  But it’s important to know about the negative energy and negative influence that comes from embittered people. You need to be more careful with the feelings of others, because you do not know what a worried person feels. Sensitive people are always in harmony with others.  I think everyone wants to have such a skill.

3. Sensitivity and creativity.

If you are a sensitive person, you can be a creative person. Creativity can manifest itself in various fields. Many sensitive people are introverts, and this trait can also stimulate creativity. Such people have a unique point of view and a creative outlook on the world.

4. Intuitive.

It is important to love your intuition and feel good with this gift. Intuition is your inner guide to help you get the full picture of action.  This deep connection with the spiritual world will teach you to understand people in a completely different light. In addition, intuitive people deal with problems more efficiently, which makes them more resistant to stress.

5. You are not a fake person.

I noticed that all sensitive people are authentic in nature. They have no fake faces. Sincerity is the main feature of their character. These open people are always trying to do everything so that people around feel comfortable.

6. Selflessness.

Sensitive people do not have selfishness. The most sensitive people devote a lot of time to caring for others. In addition, they have a great sense of responsibility towards others. Empathy is a wonderful thing that is appreciated by others.

7. In contact with the inner world.

Sensitive people usually have a special vision and sense of situation. They often pay great attention to their inner voice and try not to ignore it. If you are a sensitive person, then you are in contact with your emotions and inner being. As a result, you are more careful in making decisions.

I hope these tips will help you, your friends and family to better understand and accept each other. Being sensitive has both advantages and disadvantages. In my opinion, there are more advantages. Sensitive people  usually become more enriched people and they are very kind.

In this article we will talk about those problems, features, advantages that are inherent in highly sensitive people. And this information is likely to change your life. You will experience relief that you could not find for many years in therapy, training, spiritual practices, books, and periodically found yourself on the verge of despair or in deep depression. Recognize that you are not alone, that everything is fine with you, and high sensitivity can serve for the good.

The main problems of highly sensitive people

I have identified 8 such problems and you will probably recognize yourself in them if you are a highly sensitive person.

1. Highly sensitive people - white crows. Most likely you were the child who was different from the rest. You eschewed other children a little and did not quite understand how to communicate with them.
2. You adapt to the outside world. You have a feeling inside that you are not entitled to show yourself real. You do not show your true nature, mimic and pretend that you are just like everyone else. Although inside you know that you are different. And most likely, you live with this all your life. And it hurts to talk about it.
3. You have guilt problems. You are afraid to offend and disturb other people; it is inconvenient for you to disturb them. You are a very sensitive and considerate person. And often, because of this, it is very difficult for you to communicate with people and express yourself as you would like.
4. Strongly developed ideals, views and stereotypes. They are almost always associated with shame. You have a lot of ideals, concepts which you must conform to. But usually, you do not meet these ideal ideas of yourself. This makes you very ashamed and hard, because you are constantly aware that you do not fit the different criteria of an ideal person. Because of this, you also have many difficulties.
5. You subject to other people's mood. You are very worried when it is bad for your loved ones. Your experiences do not allow you to express yourself as you would like. Often, when your loved one is ill, you also feel bad, as if you are absorbing his condition and mood.
6. This problem is very big, it is also peculiar to me. You quickly get tired of others and from communicating with them. Many people can talk for hours on end and feel great about it. You and I are exhausted much faster, especially if this is empty talk. Sometimes we meet people, communicate with them, and then we realize that we are wildly tired, but it is uncomfortable to leave - a feeling of guilt.
7. Difficulty making a decision. You are trying to make no mistakes more than others. You are looking for a lot of solutions, trying to calculate your actions, to predict the result. But the problem is that the more options appear, the more difficult the choice itself becomes. Therefore, we very often hang in making decisions and slow down actions, because this applies not only to significant decisions, but also to simple, everyday ones.
8. You endure failures, criticism and negativity. You are like a bare wire. This is largely due to your guilt and shame. After all, you do not meet your ideals, which have absorbed since childhood. And it’s hard for you when someone criticizes you and your actions. You may be hurt even by a minimal phrase, comment.

If all of the above, or at least partially about you, you are where you need to be. We will help you reconfigure your actions and habits so that these problems are not so difficult for you. Here you finally get to know yourself real.

Features of highly sensitive people

In this part of the article, you will learn about the four most important features of highly sensitive people. Features - this is something neutral, these are not problems, these are not the pros and cons, these are just our distinctive properties, from which the advantages and disadvantages arise.

Feature No. 1. Information Processing Depth

This means that you look at the essence of things. Remember, there was such a phrase “look at the root”? This is about you. You see some patterns that other people don’t see or they need to concentrate or think especially hard. You are aimed at understanding the essence of things.

Some of you may even have philosophical thinking. You want to understand some deep meaning, that which lies within. You process information at a particular depth. Therefore, you are not interested in chatter about anything and superficial conversations.

Feature No. 2. Sensory irritability

It follows your quick fatigue. It is for this reason that it’s hard for you to constantly be in some kind of hangouts, hard to talk for a long time, hard when there are a lot of impressions, events of the day, when there is noise and bright light around you, there are always some distractions.

You have a particularly acute reaction to stress because your senses have increased irritability and increased susceptibility. This is just a property.

Feature No. 3. Increased attention to detail and nuances.

This happens on its own, you do not have to do anything for this. You just think in detail and see in detail. If many people see the situation as a whole, then you see everything in detail, you perceive in detail any information. You simply scan these details and nuances, some small parts that are inaccessible to most people.

Therefore, we became psychologists, because we hear the nuances, we hear the details that most people do not pay attention to. To ordinary people it is invisible, they pass it by the ears, and you very well note and notice. You see much more of some small details, features, strokes, nuances and similar things.

Feature No. 4. Increased emotional reactivity

It can be either external or internal. This means that we, highly sensitive people, feel more acutely. We feel everything very much, we are captured by our feelings. More than half of people attribute themselves to insensitive people in general. Our feelings play a rather large role.

Perhaps at some point in your life you thought that your feelings were bothering you and decided to abandon them. And from that moment you most likely started having problems. Many highly sensitive people do this.

I want you to understand that feelings are your forte. You feel thinner and sharper than most people. Moreover, you feel not only your own, but also someone else's. In our brain there is a large number of mirror neurons that make us empathize with other people. We feel someone else’s pain, we feel someone else’s joy, someone else’s grief, both good and bad alien states. And this is our property.

So, I talked about 4 properties of highly sensitive people - the depth of information processing, increased irritability, increased attention to details and nuances, and increased emotionality.

Accordingly, from these four features, which are neutral in themselves, arise as our minuses, our problems, which I spoke about earlier, as well as our advantages, our strengths, which we will discuss later in this article.

Go to the next section, there will be about your strengths, which have always been with you. Perhaps you did not notice them or did not know how to use them.

The benefits of highly sensitive people

We have already talked about the characteristic VChLnye features and what troubles they themselves mean. However, just like every coin has two sides, the disadvantages can be turned into advantages. And there is no one more effective and cooler than the pumped VChL.

High sensitivity suggests a number of advantages that we have over ordinary people.

Advantage No. 1. Empathy

The ability to deeply empathize with people, to feel what is happening to them emotionally.It is necessary in such professions as a doctor, teacher, psychologist, salesman.

Not to mention that it’s very useful to feel people: not to run into an annoyed boss, “feel” a supportive state and ask for something in this mood, to support a loved one. After all, people so often need support and tacit understanding.

Advantage No. 2. High Consciousness and Honesty

We cannot do half, and if we get down to business, we surrender ourselves to it completely. Wise leaders appreciate this. A fanatical attitude to your favorite business cannot but lead to success.

Advantage No. 3. Attention to detail

Highly sensitive people are able to notice and see something elusive, which an ordinary person will not pay attention to.

We feel mistakes and shortcomings more subtly and strive to eliminate them, from which the result approaches ideal. The main thing here is not to fall into perfectionism, but you probably already know how to deal with it.

Advantage No. 4. Concentration

The ability to focus and delve deeply into the process is another of our superpowers. Do not distract the VCHL and it will give amazing results.

Advantage No. 5. Depth of perception

Highly sensitive people process information at deeper levels of memory. We do not like superficial perception - we are able to analyze the information received more deeply.Most likely, during your studies it was difficult for you to cram, memorize, but if you understood and delved into it, then there were no problems in memorizing.

Advantage No. 6. Deep analytical thinking

Attention to detail, the ability to concentrate and the depth of perception together form a quality that deserves separate consideration. The combination of these qualities allows you to effectively perform tasks where you need care in combination with speed and accuracy. We very subtlely see cause and effect relationships, which makes high-sensitivity people into great analysts.

Perhaps a couple of the last points caused you some resistance, because you give the impression of an inattentive person and you yourself as such yourself

you think. However, this is not entirely true: VCHL’s attention is more tenacious - it is more focused on details and thus you are distracted by them.

Advantage number 7. Learning and curiosity

We, Highly Sensitive People, constantly learn, even when we don’t do it intentionally.

We are constantly developing and improving ourselves - we feel an irresistible need for this. And the curiosity and inquisitiveness of the mind does not allow our brains to "rust."

Advantage No. 8. Reflection and analysis of past experience

VChLy capable of long thinking, pondering. Your past, plan your future, calculate options.

We consider our behavior: whether we did the right thing, said in a particular situation, how we reacted and why. If you do not turn it into self-digging and self-eating, then this quality can help to avoid many future mistakes and not dance on the old rake.

As you can see, you and I have many useful and unique abilities that are not available to ordinary people.

High sensitivity is not a curse, but a huge potential for pumping and development.

High sensitivity is not a fantasy, it is in our biological nature

Friends, hereinafter we will briefly talk about some studies regarding high sensitivity. There is a big problem here, because when I tell you about high sensitivity, you may have objections. And you say that, of course, it looks like me, but maybe it's notions, it's not serious, and these are my fantasies.

Indeed, such a thought appears. I want you to understand that your high sensitivity is not just thoughts and fantasies. This is characteristic of your biological nature.

Evidence of high sensitivity

I will tell you about several scientific studies so that you are convinced that this is indeed so, this is your genetic and physiological feature, and not just fantasies. That is, you are really like that and you really belong to a special category of people.

Proof No. 1.High sensitivity exists, and we find confirmation of this in studies conducted on newborn babies. That is, an adult can fantasize himself and simply say that he is highly sensitive, but the infant cannot think of anything yet. Certain experiments were conducted on newborn children, they changed the taste of water, etc. 15-20% of children showed increased sensitivity to such changes.

Proof No. 2.In the USA, studies were conducted using a magnetic resonance imager. People were placed in a tomograph and showed them photographs of other people experiencing positive and negative emotions. Studies have shown that the brain of a highly sensitive person is more sensitive to other people's emotions. On the tomogram, it was perfectly clear that highly sensitive people have a stronger response in the brain when they see photos than ordinary people.

Proof No. 3.Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) have a special gene that can be found in highly sensitive people. As a result of the action of this gene, less serotonin is produced in our brain and in the brain of monkeys. Accordingly, serotonin in the brain is generally less. This is our distinctive physiological feature. Scientists have determined that a special gene is responsible for this, which is inherited. High sensitivity is an innate property of a person. So it is considered with a high degree of probability.

Proof No. 4.In America, telephone polls were conducted. People were randomly selected, they were phoned and asked how sensitive they were. More than half of the respondents (the sample was completely random) said that they were completely insensitive. And only about 20% said they were very sensitive. This is a statistical confirmation that highly sensitive people are a special group.

Proof No. 5.  Scientists note that other species are also highly sensitive. Moreover, if you try, you can arrange breeding, that is, take highly sensitive individuals and cross them. After some time, a separate highly sensitive breed of organisms will be bred.

This is another confirmation that you do not think that these are some kind of fiction. We are highly sensitive people. This is a separate category of people. High sensitivity is due to our nature, our biology, our physiology, and this is recorded in our genes.

I hope this news makes you happy, it will help you to connect with who you really are even easier, you always have been and always will be.

It is useless to fight your feelings and emotions, you need to learn how to use them for peaceful purposes. I hope that with our help you will learn to deal with it much better, because we ourselves are VCHLy. We had big serious problems, we are psychologists, we learned to cope with this. And we can help you with this.

What if any unfamiliar situation makes you very excited? What if a half-hour buffet reception leads to an unbearable desire to retire, since a "social hangover" inevitably sets in? Perhaps you belong to the orchid people.

A bit of theory:  The hypersensitivity phenomenon was first described by Elaine Ayron, an American psychotherapist. Before her, all orchid people were mistakenly attributed either to introverts, or simply to people nervous or even neurotic. Hypersensitivity has nothing to do with diseases and abnormalities! Of course, introversion is found in most orchid people, but there are also extraverts among them.

I will make a reservation that this is not a scientific work and I have not done any research. The writing here is the result of observing myself and others like me, and I was inspired by the book Elaine Ayron "The Ultrasensitive Nature".

Who are orchid people?

You can safely classify yourself among these 25% of subtle natures, if you are characterized by most of the following symptoms:
1. High susceptibility to external stimuli and strong excitability of the nervous system
  2. Caution and even slowness in decision making
  3. The tendency to deep analysis of their actions and events around them
  4. Increased attention to subtle details and subtle trends
  5. High susceptibility to other people's emotions (high empathy, pity for the weaker), as well as avoiding conflicts
  6. Loss of concentration and confusion in the situation of evaluation and observation by other people
  7. Developed intuition, propensity for foresight
  8. Hemispheric thinking, good creativity

9. Introversion (about 70% of orchid people are introverts), avoiding publicity and a wide circle of contacts
  10. The tendency to continuous learning, the desire for self-improvement
  11. Increased vulnerability and a tendency to more pronounced physical discomfort, that is, suffer more from pain, suffer hunger worse
  12. Higher susceptibility to drug treatment, caffeine

Now we will analyze in more detail the main features of orchid people, and how they appear at work, in communication with colleagues.

1. High susceptibility to external stimuli and strong excitability of the nervous system

Details:
  Perhaps this is the most striking and defining feature of people-orchids. If you take beads as a metaphorical image, then this feature is a thread, and that's it
  the rest are beads that would not be able to make beads without a thread.

The reaction of highly sensitive people to any, even a minor irritant is stronger than that of most people. Particularly strong reaction to unexpected and unfamiliar stimuli. For example, an unexpected ringing of broken glass or someone’s shout will make your heart startle, gasp, and beat. Strong irritants completely stun you and cause a stupor reaction, a desire to retire soon. Therefore, orchid people, because of their increased emotionality, try to avoid:
  Crowded Rush Hour Transport
  Large rallies
  Buffet receptions and noisy parties
  Long noisy lines
  Traffic jams (by the way, orchid people know better than others how to avoid jams;)

Cause:
The nervous system of orchid people is tuned to a higher susceptibility to minor irritants. This in turn implies a more detailed processing of the information entering the brain. As a result, the overload of the nervous system is stronger than that of most people. From here - fatigue comes faster, with strong irritants - fatigue is completely deafening.

Manifestation in a business environment:
  Orchid people are extremely uncomfortable in large and noisy meetings. In order not to aggravate your internal stress and not to force
  their heart beat even more often, they prefer to remain silent. They definitely don't like open-space offices.

Of course, I do not like to work on weekends, but if you have to go out, the bonus is the opportunity to sit in an empty office with a dim light! My work is in full swing in such an atmosphere!

2. Caution and slowness in decision making

Details:
  Orchid people prefer to think through all the possible consequences of any action, which takes a lot of time. But their decisions are often successful,
  After all, they were based on the collection of a large number of facts and consideration of all possible options.

Cause:
  Your brain always strives for thorough and deep processing of information, and this takes much more time.

Manifestation in a business environment:
  Such people work on the principle of "measure seven times, cut once." The work in which you need to make decisions quickly is the strongest
  stress.

3. The tendency to constantly analyze their actions and events around

Details:
  Orchid people are prone to long meditations and self-digging. Those around can perceive it as wandering in the clouds and counting crows;).
  Constant internal dialogue can lead to distraction and some awkwardness in actions. But it is thanks to this inner work
  Orchid people are more often endowed with worldly wisdom, they are more often rational and prudent in their actions, more often they become truly mature people.

Cause:
  All the same tendency to constantly process incoming information.

Manifestation in a business environment:

When discussing some new information, an oversensitive employee may look bad at capturing what is happening. But due to his penchant for analysis, later he comes to even a deeper understanding of the details and nuances than others.

She herself noticed the following: when I learn something new in large quantities, there are confusion and chaos in my head. But I already know that the brain half-consciously processes what it has learned. And the next day or week (depending on the complexity of the task or information) comes SUCH clarity and understanding, which I did not even dream of at first! The expression "Morning in the evening is wiser" exactly about people-orchids!

4. Increased attention to subtle details and trends.

Details:
  From a highly sensitive nature, you will most likely hear the phrase “Something is wrong here ...” It is the orchid people who will be the first to pay attention to subtle changes in the usual course of things. Whether this will be a false alarm or the beginning of an impending disaster is already a matter of time. But in any case, it will be wise for others to listen to them. Perhaps, when the tsunami approached in Thailand, orchid people were the first to pay attention to animals running away from the shore and even more so did not rush to collect shells on the exposed shore before the arrival of a big wave ...

Cause:

High susceptibility to minor irritants is combined with increased attention to detail. The nervous system of people-orchids, figuratively speaking, wears glasses with magnifying glasses: they help to better see the details, but the incident light also burns more due to the lenses. Nature has given us such lenses so that we can see in advance the impending danger and warn our fellow tribesmen. A separate post on my site is dedicated to the benefits of orchid people for the rest of the community.

Manifestation in a business environment:
  You are the one who knows how to warn the boss or your colleagues about the problem before it gets worse. You are the first one to notice the subtle
  changes in the market and warn others about it. Perhaps you have a reputation for exaggerating danger all the time. But rather in you
  appreciate this insight.

I tried to show most of the characteristic features of orchid people as advantages and strengths. Believe me, I was not afraid to overdo it, since such people are rarely prone to excessive self-esteem, and such praises against them will not lead to narcissism.

Highly sensitive people are a gift for humanity. Although they are sometimes mistaken for the weak, they are actually very empathetic and able to demonstrate a high degree of understanding and concern. Such individuals have a unique ability. They can withstand a cold and indifferent society and remain as open and understanding as ever.

High sensitivity caused by genetics

According to scientific studies, high sensitivity is caused by genetics, in particular the highly sensitive nervous system. This makes the person very subtly perceive everything that is around her, and more vividly and emotionally respond to it.

How do genes affect this? To do this, you need to understand such concepts as temperament and personality. Temperament is a set of innate features that determine how a person will see this world. This is a complex phenomenon that is literally woven into human DNA. A personality is that into which a person transforms under the influence of his temperament, life experience, value system, education, and many other factors. Personality is the result of exposure to both external factors and society, and behavior.

If you depict this visually, the temperament resembles a blank canvas, while the person chooses what she will draw on this canvas. In this case, the personality can change for various reasons, while temperament remains unchanged. Thus, high sensitivity is the result of how a person’s temperament is manifested in his personality.

The brain of highly sensitive people is different from others.

According to scientific studies, the brain of highly sensitive people is able to process much more information coming from the environment, compared to those who do not possess such a feature. Such people see more and more figuratively, constantly create specific associations, and such people have a high level of intuition.

The brain of sensitive people perceives, evaluates, processes and synthesizes information constantly. That is why they seem so absorbed, tired and even distracted. Unlike other people, such individuals need more frequent rest.

How to learn to cope with high sensitivity?

Now that you understand the nature of this phenomenon, you can take certain steps towards learning how to live with high sensitivity. Here are some ideas and tips to help you understand yourself or to understand people around you with this feature:

• Being a sensitive person is not a curse. Accept and love yourself for who you are.
• Allow yourself to show emotions. Do not hide everything that you feel, just so as not to stand out from others.
• Learn to understand that the world really needs people like you. Sensitivity shows us that we are human beings and keeps society from sinking into indifference, inertness and coldness.
• Give yourself time to relax. Highly sensitive people are easily amenable to causeless anxiety, depression. Learn to see moments when your emotional state begins to reach high levels and you need to take a break.
• For a highly sensitive soul, loneliness can become one of the most valuable and positive things. Do not forget sometimes just to be alone with yourself.

In addition, people with high sensitivity are not only very kind and gentle, they are also able to very deeply understand and perceive the mood and emotions of those people they love. They know how to listen, hear, understand and truly empathize, which undoubtedly refers to the best human qualities.

Output

High sensitivity is not an indicator of weakness, but rather, it shows that you are still not indifferent and not cold, like most of modern society. There is nothing shameful in showing your emotions, because it is they who make such people so unique and inimitable. Thanks to the existence of such personalities, our world is still humane, warm and not indifferent.

People say that you are too emotional and take everything to heart? Do not think that something is wrong with you. Perhaps you belong to those who are called "hypersensitive." The thing is that this is your personal perception of reality and it’s hard for you to live differently. In psychology, this phenomenon is considered quite normal and there are characteristic signs that help to identify hypersensitive people.

1. 100% sensitivity

Perhaps this is the most important distinguishing feature of such people. Their brain works differently and as if catches all sensitive waves. That is why they take all the information very seriously and, as it were, pass it completely through themselves. The emotions of such people are very bright and almost tangible.

2. High level of intuition

Often, hypersensitive people can determine that something is wrong with their loved ones. It is impossible to hide experiences from them. They seem to read through people. This is because their sensitive channel is very well tuned and able to catch any, even minimal, changes.

3. Independence

Hypersensitive people do not like teamwork. Best of all, they study / work alone. They are able to quickly figure out something new on their own.

4. Flattery for the good

Honestly, it’s hard to call flattery, but such people have an important point - they always want to like everything. But this is not because they have high self-esteem. The thing is different - they want everyone around to feel good. They are afraid to imagine that they can hurt someone. Negative emotions destroy their sensitivity. That is why they are very courteous with everyone and often help people.

5. Observation

The brain of hypersensitive people works like a scanner. He reads all the information, notices even minor nuances, which, by the way, are important in their lives. Such people cannot be deceived, as they will easily feel fake emotions.

6. Perfectionism

Someone might think that this is too much, but such is the nature of hypersensitive people. Perfectionism literally flows in their veins and makes them do everything perfectly. This is important for them, as they try to maintain a balance in life, as well as avoid destruction of any kind.

7. Emotions in the palm of your hand

The level of sensitivity of such people is so great that it is difficult, and sometimes they do not even want to restrain themselves. If such a person wanted to cry, he will do it. Hypersensitive people consider this to be natural and are not ashamed of their reactions.

Hardly anyone at all likes it when they shout at him. In the case of hypersensitive people, everything is more dramatic - they can’t tolerate this. Sharp sounds generally scare them. They prefer calm. Cries only block the perception of the situation.

9. Endless creativity

Such people are constantly in a creative storm. They receive so much information that they instantly transform it into some kind of creative process. Moreover, the brains of hypersensitive people can work on several levels at once, which is why they are often addicted to several things.

10. Ahead of all

For hypersensitive people, “trends” are just a word. The fact is that their level of sensitivity allows them to predict trends. Intuition helps them to be ahead of everyone. That is why many cannot fully appreciate their tastes, and sometimes they don’t understand at all. Of course, until they themselves fall under the wave of “trends”. Meanwhile, hypersensitive people are already opening new doors.