Video: On Being Sensitive
The trait of high sensitivity is experienced by 15 to 20 percent of us. In this video are some quotes by and about Winona Ryder, Heath Ledger, Amy Brenneman, Scarlett Johansson, Anne Hathaway, and Ellen DeGeneres about their experience of sensitivity. Maybe you can relate to some of them.
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Winona Ryder has said, “You go through spells where you feel that maybe you’re too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.”
“There was a time when I was 19 when I really, really, really thought I was going crazy,” she has said about her own brief stay at a psychiatric clinic.
“I was exhausted and going through a terrible depression.”
From post: Sensitivity and stress – Winona Ryder: “Maybe I’m too sensitive for this world.
Having mental health challenges like depression and anxiety may be all the more severe when we are highly sensitive.
Shyness and introversion may seem to be the same in some ways, at least on the surface.
They can overlap, and we may have both traits – but they are not the same thing. And they are not the same as the trait of high sensitivity.
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All my life i have always been extremely sensitive, but i never knew that there was a posibility that i was not just a little bit crazy for feeling things as deeply as i do. Thank you.
I can identify with Wynona Ryder. i too sometimes feel like i’m too highly sensitive or too emotionally in tune with the world and the people in it to belong.
To be honest, I always looked down a little bit on Winona after hearing her talk about her experiences with feeling down and out so often. It is because I know how she feels, but I have always kept it to myself. Now that I have connected how she feels to being sensitive, it brings me comfort to know there are others out there. You know when you are in the company of one, and it brings much joy to have someone notice your feelings as much as you notice others. I hope Winona finds her fellow HSP.
Being highly-sensitive and too emotional are two different things I think. I am very sensitive but not always emotional, but yet I know people who are very emotional and cry at anything but are not highly-sensitive people.
It is hard being highly sensitive in this world, but I would not change it for nothing. I feel what so many others can’t.