When you hear that someone is “highly sensitive,” it’s common to think they may be weak and fragile—someone who gets their feelings hurt more easily. In clinical terms, however, that’s not what high ...

Many women I work with are highly sensitive people (HSP), and I am, myself. According to research, highly sensitive people make up 20% of people, but most people in therapy, and likely an even higher ...

Heightened sensitivity can be a professional superpower, but you need to understand yourself first. This test can help you find the answers. Research shows that somewhere between 20 and 30 percent of ...

Elaine Aron coined the term "highly sensitive person" based on her 1991 research to refer to people with delicate nervous systems. Highly sensitive people or HSPs have a lower threshold for certain ...

I’m the kind of person who absorbs the emotions of other people. If someone I know is stressed out or depressed, I feel it, too, resonating with their pain. Sad movies—heck, even sappy commercials—can ...

Do you cry while watching a movie? Get easily irked by sounds of a dragging chair? Lose sleep over a friends break up? Get easily startled? Over-analyse situations? You could be a HSP or a Highly ...

*In her upcoming book “The Highly Sensitive Rabbit,” set for release on October 7, 2025, psychiatrist Judith Orloff, MD, asserts that sensitive children hold the potential to transform our chaotic ...