The Highly Sensitive Person in a World That Rewards Numbness

You cry at commercials. You absorb the mood of every room you enter. You need hours of solitude after social events that other people find merely pleasant.

You cry at commercials. You absorb the mood of every room you enter. You need hours of solitude after social events that other people find merely pleasant.

You cannot watch violent movies without carrying the images for days.

You notice things that nobody else notices - the flicker of irritation behind someone's polished smile, the tension between two colleagues that neither has acknowledged, the sadness in a stranger's eyes at the grocery store.

You feel everything with an intensity that the world has told you, in a thousand ways, is a problem to be solved.