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The Highly Sensitive Person By Elaine N. Aron Ph.D. ( Broadway Books )
Release Date: 1997-06-02
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Are you a highly sensitive person?
Do you have a keen imagination and vivid dreams? Is time alone each day as essential to you as food and water? Are you "too shy" or "too sensitive" according to others? Do noise and confusion quickly overwhelm you? If your answers are yes, you may be a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP).
Most of us feel overstimulated every once in a while, but for the Highly Sensitive Person, it's a way of life. In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Elaine Aron, a psychotherapist, workshop leader and highly sensitive person herself, shows you how to identify this trait in yourself and make the most of it in everyday situations. Drawing on her many years of research and hundreds of interviews, she shows how you can better understand yourself and your trait to create a fuller, richer life.
In The Highly Sensitive Person , you will discover:
* Self-assessment tests to help you identify your particular sensitivities
* Ways to reframe your past experiences in a positive light and gain greater self-esteem in the process
* Insight into how high sensitivity affects both work and personal relationships
* Tips on how to deal with overarousal
* Informations on medications and when to seek help
* Techniques to enrich the soul and spirit
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Amazon.com Review
Are you an HSP? Are you easily overwhelmed by stimuli? Affected by other people's moods? Easily startled? Do you need to withdraw during busy times to a private, quiet place? Do you get nervous or shaky if someone is observing you or competing with you? HSP, shorthand for "highly sensitive person," describes 15 to 20 percent of the population. Being sensitive is a normal trait--nothing defective about it. But you may not realize that, because society rewards the outgoing personality and treats shyness and sensitivity as something to be overcome. According to author Elaine Aron (herself an HSP), sensitive people have the unusual ability to sense subtleties, spot or avoid errors, concentrate deeply, and delve deeply. This book helps HSPs to understand themselves and their sensitive trait and its impact on personal history, career, relationships, and inner life. The book offers advice for typical problems. For example, you learn strategies for coping with overarousal, overcoming social discomfort, being in love relationships, managing job challenges, and much more. The author covers a lot of material clearly, in an approachable style, using case studies, self-tests, and exercises to bring the information home. The book is essential for you if you are an HSP--you'll learn a lot about yourself. It's also useful for people in a relationship with an HSP. --Joan Price
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 Consider conventional solutions first ( lpenguin )
I was really into these theories for a while but now really believe some of these can be re-framed using physiological explanations. Consider High Sensation Seeking (HSS). Could this be explained by ADD or ADHD? Also consider Highly Sensitive Person. Could this be explained by an overactive limbic system ? I came up with these explanations after reading the following books:
1. "Healing ADD: The Breakthrough Program That Allows You to See and Heal the 6 Types of ADD"
2. "Healing Anxiety and Depression"
by Daniel G. Amen
Consider that the simplest explanation for something is usually the right one. In this case they would be imbalances in brain function. My respects to Dr. Elaine Aron and I read and bought all the books but addressing the unbalanced brain chemistry has helped the most. My thought are that the insight and knowledge she provides can be applied to the cognitive (mental) half of those treatments.
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 I am normal afterall
I haven't finished it yet as it stirs up a lot of memories and I have to process a bit at at time, but the information is very reassuring, normalizing, and validates my experience of myself. I can also see the traits clearly in others that share this attribute. I am very grateful for this book.
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And all this time, I thought something was wrong with me...
Not only is there nothing wrong with me, my HSP traits are an asset! Finally, a positive book on being highly sensitive. Dare I say, this book is my bible. I made my brother read it too, and he found it extremely helpful also. I am grateful for this book. Thank you Elaine.
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 Didn't quite hit the mark
I bought this book with the recommendation/ suggestion from a friend. Based on the info from Amazon, I thought it might be a helpful read. But after obtaining the book, I discovered it doesn't really describe me as much as we guessed. I'm taking that as good news (no sense taking on another label).
The author does a really nice job of reassuring readers that being an HSP is ok. Absolutely nothing to be ashamed of and that success and happiness are still within reach. So a very nice, concrete, positive book. Lots of practical exercises and things to ponder, but if you aren't really a "highly sensitive person", it falls rather flat.
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The Highly Sensitive Person
I wish I would have found out about this book years ago. I feel like someone wrote my autobiography. I feel validated and also excited to know that there are others who are like myself, Highly Sensitive. The most important thing is that despite my difficult childhood, and sensitive nature I have been able to be a very successful person. Lastly, I am embarking on new territory with the help of a HSP therapist who is helping me to work through some deep seated pain. It is through her recommendation that I found this book. I am eternally grateful.
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