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The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You by Elaine N. Aron
3 reviews
ashwaar's review against another edition
informative
reflective
slow-paced
3.0
I think I just went into this book expecting something different and honestly a bit more helpful. I know I'm highly sensitive and I'd heard this book being recommended and I thought it could help me and offer some advice. But it just didn't do enough and I got more information about how I may have been as an infant compared to advice on myself as an adult. I also felt like Aron never really said anything concrete, she'd write along the lines of 'you might want to go out in the evening to push yourself or stay in and listen to what your body needs'. I know that already, and I just needed more from it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Mental illness
Moderate: Medical content
Minor: Suicide, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, and Sexual assault
galoshes's review against another edition
I stopped about halfway through, after far too many anecdotes about horrific childhoods and incestuous abuse, and skimmed the rest.
I am an HSP. I appreciated the beginning of the book for identifying issues that I deal with every day, specifically sensory overload leading to blank-brain, headaches, and irritability. This book validated and explained my symptoms in the first two chapters.
The best new information I got out of this was the concept of balancing stimulation: before this book I hadn't considered that I had issues with both overstimulation and understimulation. Now it makes sense that I have a lot of trouble when I'm bored and also when there's too much going on. I can make adjustments to my environment to make sure I maintain a balance.
The last 3/4 of the book tries to champion HSPs as wonderful and wise members of society while simultaneously implying that all HSPs come from abusive childhoods and require intensive therapy and medication. It's a wild and disturbing ride. I bailed out when it felt like this book was actually making my anxiety worse.
I am an HSP. I appreciated the beginning of the book for identifying issues that I deal with every day, specifically sensory overload leading to blank-brain, headaches, and irritability. This book validated and explained my symptoms in the first two chapters.
The best new information I got out of this was the concept of balancing stimulation: before this book I hadn't considered that I had issues with both overstimulation and understimulation. Now it makes sense that I have a lot of trouble when I'm bored and also when there's too much going on. I can make adjustments to my environment to make sure I maintain a balance.
The last 3/4 of the book tries to champion HSPs as wonderful and wise members of society while simultaneously implying that all HSPs come from abusive childhoods and require intensive therapy and medication. It's a wild and disturbing ride. I bailed out when it felt like this book was actually making my anxiety worse.
Content Warnings
Minor: Child abuse and Incest
vdsissid's review against another edition
informative
slow-paced
4.0
My review; https://valeriedurette.wordpress.com/2023/03/16/sensitivity-in-an-overstimulating-world/
Content Warnings
Minor: Sexual violence, Suicide, Drug abuse, Alcohol, and Child abuse
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