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The highly sensitive person (or HSP) is someone who cares deeply about everything ... feels emotions with great intensity ... is highly conscientious ... has a rich and complex inner life ... is very intuitive ... is often creative in a variety of ways... is easily overwhelmed and/or overstimulated. A HSP needs lots of quiet time,space, and freedom. If this sounds...

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jacksonz
jacksonz

Whenever I have a sensitive moment, breakdown, my family, husband and 2 teenage kids, simply ignore me. 


To them I am mentally ill, though I have come to realize I am nothing more than a pretty typical HSP. I am not like them, I feel things they don't. I hear and interepre things much more deeply. 


Is this the situation with other people as well? It is very painful to be ignored.


I have no friends to talk to. My family thinks I am mentally ill too. 


Feeling things deeply doesn't make you mentally ill, does it?


Andelene
Andelene
No, you are definitely not mentally I'll. I am also a highly sensitive person, and could never really bond or connect with my parents or my sisters. I also had 2 unhappy marriages, for the same reason. When I was younger, I thought there was something wrong with me. Today I realize that being highly sensitive is actually a step above normal society. Because people don't understand our very sensitive, and often painful world, they simply coondem us as being mentally I'll. Please don't judge yourself also, according to other people's standards! You experience life much deeper than those around you. And no matter how hard you try to explain it, others can never understand. So, you are not mentally sick or unstable! In fact, you are very special!! Make some "me time" and spoil yourself a bit. You deserve it! xxx
jacksonz
jacksonz
Thank you so much for the reply! It almost brings me to tears to have someone relate to this. It is so hard to be this way :(

I tried to explain it to my husband this way, "I feel like a finely-tuned earthquake sensor in a bouncy house"

Thanks again xoxo
closer
closer
I understand where you are coming from! My husband will tune me out when I'm having an emotional moment. He doesn't understand my feelings are all. So sometimes I have to keep to myself. My son is still pretty young. Hugs to you, do take care of yourself!