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The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You by Elaine N. Aron
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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
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