Winona Ryder and depression
Winona Ryder starred in the film based on Susanna Kaysen’s novel Girl, Interrupted, and thinks Kaysen “captures a mood we’ve all experienced. It’s like a reflective time we’ve all had in our lives, whether to kill ourselves, whether to be miserable or move on. You go through spells where you feel that [...]
highly sensitive personality, highly sensitive people, empowering sensitivity
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Author and success consultant Jenna Forrest writes in her memoir Help Is On Its Way about growing up with the trait of high sensitivity. In our recent podcast interview, she talks about empowering and transcending sensitivity. From the interview:
“Millions of highly sensitive people right at this moment are [...]
On growing up
On the excellent Highly Sensitive People dvd by Jim Hallowes, psychologist Pat Allen, PhD, MFT recalls her mother using the phrase “Still waters run deep” to refer to her – something many of us could relate to. I think my own mother used the phrase, as a subtle form of affirmation of my [...]
Dealing with sensitivity
The photo is Christina Ricci as Wednesday in Addams Family Values (1993), which also featured David Krumholtz [now in the tv series Numb3rs] as a rather stereotypical highly sensitive kid, repressed and using an inhaler to cope with asthma.
But Wednesday may represent another sort of coping with high sensitivity: responding to situations and [...]