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The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
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September 1, 2014
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September 30, 2014
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Starfire
Wow. I have SO MANY mixed feelings about this book.

On the one hand, I'm more aware of my HSP tendencies than I was beforehand, and realising that a few of my otherwise inexplicable tendencies might relate back to high sensitivity in a couple of specific sensory modalities.

On the other, the author has a REAL bee in her bonnet about introversion. She repeatedly refers to introversion in the same breath as neuroticism, describing it as something that "genuine HSPs retreat into" to protect themselve
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