Hi I am an HSP Looking to Help Others

Hello! My name is Diviny and I am here to both receive and give support. Since I have the mike, Id like to draw awareness to being a highly sensitive person, HSP, or hypersensitive. I have been diagnosed with this both from a regular MD and a psychologist. HSP's suffer greatly from Anxiety and Depression and we feel everything more deeply than others, so our intensity to fell negative emotions is high; you may be an HSP and have never realized it. Please check it out, there are many great articles you can look up online with more information and how to cope with life as an HSP. I hope this helps or that it can be life-changing for someone out there! Please let me know your thoughts! Take Care All-XOXO

[fauxartist]

Thanks for that, and I had not heard that was an actual diagnosis before. It was always referred to being thin skinned, or wearing your emotions on your sleeve...I never got that latter expression completely, but it's the same...

[artistofmysoul]

I can relate completely! I've never heard this terminology before, but it resonates with me. I have always been this way, from childhood. I take on the pain of others as though it were my own. It is debilitating and does cause depression and anxiety. Add to that my friends have told me that I am a "thinker". Put all of that together and it means living overwhelmed most of the time.

[Saph_Heart]

That. Makes. So. Much. Sense. I've always just called it empathy because that's what my friends have called it and told me I'm basically an empath, which is weird but meh. I've always tried helping others and feel others emotions so strongly that they override my own. It makes a lot of sense that I might have HSP because I am so connected to others through emotions and I have Anxiety and Depression, so those could have stemmed from HSP? I don't know but this is very helpful and thank you.