Highly Sensitive People - HSP

Have you ever paid attention when communicating in your family or relationship environment, including the love relationships, in people who seem to be weak, exhaust themselves with a lot of movement around them, leave the parties earlier without there being anything wrong with them? Or can it be you who has this behavior and people understand you little and think there is something wrong with you?

From the point of view of the Nonviolent Communication method, it will be of great help to practice its first pillar, which is observation without judgment. What may seem strange and different at first becomes normalized and accepted with the understanding of how the one with whom I communicate behaves, be it myself or others.

A profile of people became the object of study at the end of the last century: highly sensitive people-PAS (Highly Sensitive People).

Researcher and psychologist Elaine N. Aron researched through data collection and cataloged this profile from his own personality.

For her, scientific works, at the time, considered the introverts as not sociable, leading the researcher to doubt whether introversion and sensitivity were not being mistakenly equalized.

Some of the characteristics of this trait are: attention to the subtleties around, the person is affected by the mood of other people, has a rich and complex inner life, is disturbed when he has a lot to do in a short time, feels discomfort with noise at high volume, tries to avoid violent movies or television programs, agitates in an unpleasant way when many things are happening around him, parents and teachers seemed to consider the person when small sensitive or shy.

A profile of people became the object of study at the end of the last century: highly sensitive people-PAS (Highly Sensitive People).

Researcher and psychologist Elaine N. Aron researched through data collection and cataloged this profile from his own personality.

For her, scientific works, at the time, considered the introverts as not sociable, leading the researcher to doubt whether introversion and sensitivity were not being mistakenly equalized.

Some of the characteristics of this trait are: attention to the subtleties around, the person is affected by the mood of other people, has a rich and complex inner life, is disturbed when he has a lot to do in a short time, feels discomfort with noise in high volume, tries to avoid violent movies or television programs, shakes in an unpleasant way when many things  are happening around them.

According to the researcher, 20% to 30% of the world's population have this trait. For her, this profile is neither better nor worse than the others. Just different.

In his 1997 book Highly Sensitive People, he explains how the person with this personality can deal with excess emotional stimuli and use sensitivity to their advantage. It provides a simple questionnaire for the reader to evaluate whether or not he is a highly sensitive person. These are questions that evaluate different characteristics associated with SBPs, such as emotional sensitivity, sensory reactivity, empathy, among others.

In addition, there are also other instruments used to assess emotional sensitivity and empathy, which may be relevant to the evaluation of highly sensitive people. These instruments can be used by researchers and professionals to evaluate and study the characteristics of highly sensitive people and their relationship with different aspects of behavior and mental health.

Ilse Send, a Danish therapist and author, who explores ways to deal with sensitivity in everyday life, states that approximately one in five people is highly sensitive person. She understands that the nervous system of these people will be more refined than that of others. The person is probably more perceptive to the noise, the temperament of others, the disorganization and the unpredictable will have a significant impact on him. It draws attention to the need to differentiate shyness, anxiety and depression from PAS. Because, for her those are treatable while this personality trait, as she believes it is, is not treatable.