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

emotional informative reflective slow-paced

4.5

This novel by Dr. Elaine Aron was very insightful and I loved her psychological perspectives within research. No one will read this, but I truly feel as though I am a highly sensitive person with traits related to ADHD. I feel deeply about the world, my faith, God, my passions, my loves, and my dislikes. It can often have a negative connotation as I can also be irritable, impatient, worried, and sad more often than others. But at any rate, my emotions feel larger than life, and yet I can use them to my strength when I feel fully convicted and accepted in my own identity. I do not have to live based on my feelings; that is not at all what I am suggesting. What I am suggesting is that according to Dr. Elain Aron’s research, my brain is literally structured differently than other peoples’ and that affects the way I go about the world. While I won’t regularly define myself as a highly sensitive person to others, I allow my sensitivities to naturally reveal themselves through the way I conduct myself and my writing.