Highly Sensitive People

By Dorian Hackett

We all go through periods of intense stress, emotional struggles, and more.

How we handle each situation depends on a number of factors, from our upbringing to what we are exposed to on a daily basis. It is the level of our emotional maturity that determines our subsequent actions and whether we transition through each situation smoothly or not.

While the majority of people are capable of dealing with their responses to stressful situations, there is a small percentage of us who are considered highly sensitive. These highly sensitive people, or HSP, comprise nearly twenty percent of the United States population. Their emotional states are influenced by a highly sensitive nervous system, forcing them to process more information than average. This depth of processing occurs on a subconscious level and leads to being analyzed deeper than others.
 

"High Sensitive People" explores the causes of HSP and how each can be directly tied to a variety of experiences throughout their lives. Whether it began during childhood or through social relationships at work and with friends, sensitivity can greatly affect your life, often without you even knowing it.
It is a well established fact that highly sensitive people are creative and empathetic, and often provide great value to their work despite being overly stimulated. Not only does this make you an asset, it provides you with the fundamental understanding that you are a valuable member of the team.
Each chapter of "High Sensitive People" covers facts and provides an insightful analysis of the triggers for sensitivity and lays out a comprehension strategy to counter it. Written for those highly sensitive people who are in search of improving their lives through understanding, this is a must read.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dorian Hackett
• Release date: Jul 23, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393557340

Dorian Hackett

‘When someone tells you, it can’t be done, it’s more a reflection of their limitation, not yours…’ Dorian Hackett is a native Austrian and an author, who writes all his work in English. He graduated from with a degree in Civil Engineering and a master’s in Construction and currently works for a construction company. He is engaged to be married and lives his fiancé and their Labrador, Murphy. As an aside to his day job, Dorian discovered that he enjoyed writing while he was completing the thesis for his masters. So, when he was finished with studying, he decided to write books that would help others to improve their lives and fortunes. His two titles to date are Millionaire Mindset, which helps readers to develop the right train of thought for success and Speed Listening, which is useful for those who have to plough through lots of information in their jobs. In his spare time Dorian enjoys working out at the gym as often as he can and walks his dog to relieve the stresses of daily life. He loves to travel to exciting and distant destinations when he gets the opportunity and when on vacation, he is a keen scuba diver. One of his long time ambitions is to ride a motorcycle on a proper racetrack to satisfy his need for speed. As far as the future goes, Dorian hopes to write more books in the future, that will entertain and educate his readers and hopefully go some way to changing their lives, even if just a little.

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About the Book

This book provides basic yet in-depth information you need to learn about your sensitivity trait.

A highly sensitive person, known as HSP in short, is someone who experiences acute emotional, mental, or physical responses to stimuli. This can include external stimuli such as your surroundings and the people you’re with. It can even encompass internal stimuli such as your own realizations, emotions, and thoughts. While everyone does feel sensitive at particular times, and everyone does react to stimuli to a certain degree, being an HSP means that you experience a much greater and overwhelming response.

In the first four chapters of this book, you will learn all the basic facts about being a highly sensitive person and how to manage the over-arousal and overstimulation of your nervous system.

The next few chapters discuss the repercussions of your sensitivity on your childhood and adolescent years, social relationships, work, and friendships. It focuses on the benefits of sensitivity that you might not have thought of. Moreover, it includes advice about the general challenges that highly sensitive people face, such as nervousness and difficulty in finding the right type of work.

We hope that the information in this book can help you and other highly sensitive people experience a tangible improvement in their lives.

Are You A Sensitive Person: A Self-Assessment?

Before we move further , we would like you to take a simple self-assessment so that you can identify if you really lie in the category of a highly sensitive person.

For each statement given below, mark True if the statement holds somewhat true for you. Mark False if the statement not quite true or doesn’t hold true at all for you.

Scoring Guide

If you marked True for twelve or more statements, you’re probably a highly sensitive person.

But in all honestly, no psychological assessment is exactly accurate that you can revolve your life around it. For instance, if only two to three statements hold true for you but they’re highly true, you can consider yourself a highly sensitive person.

So, continue reading, and if you feel you fit in the comprehensive definition of a highly sensitive person in the next chapter, then think of yourself as one. The subsequent chapters in the book will help you learn more about yourself so that you can fare better in today’s environment.

Chapter 1 – Facts About Highly Sensitive People

In this chapter, you will get to know the key facts regarding your personality and how it differentiates you from others.

Highly sensitive people tend to absorb more information than regular people – they take in all the subtleties that others often miss out on. Moreover, what might seem normal to others, such as big crowds or loud noises, can be extremely overwhelming and hence,