The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

by Elaine N. Aron

FACT 1: Everyone, HSP or not, feels best when neither too bored nor too aroused.

It is true that even when exhausted you still are providing something to those you serve. But you are out of touch with your deepest strengths, role-modeling self-destructive behavior, martyring yourself, and giving others cause for guilt. And in the end you will want to quit, like Greg, or be forced to by your body.