Poll Do You Believe You Are A Very Sensitive Person?

[Knak]

I hate that one slight can keep me deeply depressed for days on end. I hate to leave the house or answer the phone because I'm so afraid of people.

 

[Lucygirl]

Yep, this is me to the core. Describes me perfectly. I've always been labeled as too sensitive and have been criticized routinely for it all my life. I've toughened up a bit, I guess, over the years, but it really is who I am inside. Thanks for the post...it helps to know I'm not the only one:unsure:

 

[jeeps for now]

So this is where all the sensitive people hang out LOL. I've always felt sensitive. Sometimes even when I've done something good or right, I wonder whether or not I've made a mistake.

 

[OKRADLAK]

Very much so. I can feel the wind blowing through me and smell things no one can smell. I can tell who was over at the house by their perfume and can hear things way down the hall. It is insane. I am tuned in to others' sufferings, too, which is very hard because there is so much around. Animals, people, etc.........

 

[sea]

I voted yes, but I don't know how to explain it very well. In real life I am not that expressive, unless I am raging or freaking out due to PTSD itself. Internally I think I am "sensitive", but for me it's more reactive. I react to everything, I notice everything, I think about everything. Things stick to me, thoughts stick to me. I find criticism difficult to handle, I tend to take a lot of responsibility, I shelter myself from the outside world because it is far too overloading for me. Also all the highlighted points are pretty much true for me so I guess so.

 

[jo may]

I voted yes! But I do think because I have a lot of issues I'm less judgemental and willing to help.

 

[Tinyflame]

I would say yes.

 

[Incendiu]

More the opposite when it comes to my self. People ofthen think I'm weird, being so calm and carefree abouth people threthen me in person or yeah what it now can be. But if this is happening to someone I know I react instantly to defend and protect, fight if it's the only way to prevent the person to be harmed.

It's not that I think I get what I deserve, it's just that I always is prepared for it as it been my life so far. I know how much I can take...But coming to others I know they have often not been so far down to know, most of them have never been broken down...and I would like it to stay that way. So then I do all I can. My friends is my only "family" as long as that kinship exist I'll do all I can to protect and aid them if necessarily. To stand by their side.

Most don't understand when I try to explain, and it's hard to explain.

 

[KatB]

Almost everything on the original post relates to me. Someone here said that highly sensitive people are more likely prone to develop ptsd, some form of it. I was always more of a loner, never really liked crowds, and took things way too personally. Now when I come to think of it, I've never liked how I reacted to people's comments.

I posted something about this on another forum and I was just fighting with myself on how I reacted to certain comments that were said. I have always thought my reactions were wrong, like i was too weak or I am not supposed to react a certain way. Now, with my diagnosis of c-ptsd, it makes comments and reactions twice as strong for me and I look crazy arguing with myself. My stomach all in knots, my back hurting- damn.

As a child, i never liked how I looked. I was always called nicknames. I was heavier than my sister and I always thought she was prettier than me because she had more to fit in than me. Time passed and somehow, the nickname for me hasn't left my memory. I was sexually harrassed when young so that shot my world of perception. Moreover, life over these couple of years have left me shot and worn out. I just don't know what is normal for me. Never felt like it, never was and I am not now. I am ashamed because it's nothing like before for me...

 

[KatB]

Pretty serious problem for me to the point I isolate now and have to be somewhat dissociated to just cope with the everyday. Even minor phone calls upset and stress me out and avoid those too when I can get away with it. There seems to be no barrier between me and everything else.

Right on the target for me! This is me too.

 

[Britt.f7]

Yes, I'm sensitive. I've been told I'm too sensitive ever since I was a little girl. I was treated as it being a bad thing. I'm trying now to embrace it. I do think there are times when I am not being overly sensitive and someone else is being a jerk.

 

[lavenderblue]

I have always been sensitive, and I believe my mother is sensitive as well (she is also narcissistic and unintentionally emotionally abusive; doesn't make it okay, but it's good to understand.) The sensitivity increased after the sexual abuse. Lack of boundaries, sensing other people's feelings to the point of being unable to differentiate their feelings from your own, all made me feel vulnerable and, indeed, made me vulnerable. I felt what the abusers were feeling as if it was my own experience, and for years I walked around believing I was a horrible person. In order to cope, I holed myself up and detached from life for many years. I got chronically ill. I've been through years of therapy and I'm finally beginning to heal and to set some boundaries. Some days I actually feel hopeful. <3