Highly sensitive people?!
Question: After 11 years of thinking I had social anxiety disorder/depression/mild OCD, I have finally found out that I am really just a highly sensitive person. That fit me so much better than the social anxiety diagnosis--I mean it fits me to a T! Is anyone else out there also highly sensitive? Are there any things you have discovered over the years that helps you cope when things overwhelm you? Can you direct me to any forums or anything like that where I can talk to others like me? Or just share some stories. Thanks!
Answers: After 11 years of thinking I had social anxiety disorder/depression/mild OCD, I have finally found out that I am really just a highly sensitive person. That fit me so much better than the social anxiety diagnosis--I mean it fits me to a T! Is anyone else out there also highly sensitive? Are there any things you have discovered over the years that helps you cope when things overwhelm you? Can you direct me to any forums or anything like that where I can talk to others like me? Or just share some stories. Thanks!
I know there are message boards on www.ivillage.com that may help you out. do you also have panic/anxiety attacks too? I am a very sensitive person...i can cry at the drop of a hat.
i am the same way and i think there are lots of us out here...i cry at the drop of a hat...i'm lucky to have a family that knows i'm this way and are usually there for me...
i think i am, nineteen year old college student with social phobia but im not sure i don't like labels very much as they restrict your behaviour and you really do start to live according to them, and were such protean changeable creatures you know? we' re never the same but i identify with many of the traits, i love alone time and i do get very cranky and sick if im around others all the time or in noisy places and the smallest things can give me such a high internally like there was this cat that would come into my garden that would meow if you meow and i stroked his fur and i was in a considerable slump of depression at this time, and my spirits were just lifted it was very surreal,but ive come to conclude that animals in a sense though we dont realsie it are our healers and comforters but its all at a very subtle level and you may not recognize it if you are not sensitive.also sometimes if im eating food, and i bless it in the name of god, the colours of the food have a powerful effect on my mood, its not just throwing some stuff on a plate and gobling it down., it makes me happy and its the most sincere kind of happiness, in social groups people laugh at things not ncessarily funny but this was from my spirit. sorry for rambling on anyway such is life
I've been in the same boat too. I'm a very sensitive person. I've always been someone who can cry very easily and I have trouble socializing too, though working is starting to improve it somewhat. I'm so sensitive that I will actually try to avoid conflict by holding my tongue, even if the person and/or situation I don't agree with or I feel that the person is being condesending. It's something that I've only recently come to terms with. I'm hoping that I'll be able to learn how to deal with it in a healthy way.