Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too-Much World

by Jenn Granneman

By high school, each day overwhelms her, and she comes home so fatigued that she hides in her room from her friends.

The world had become too fast, too loud, too much.

When a man storms out of the room, he’s passionate. When a woman storms out, she’s unstable and unprofessional.”

If you’re a sensitive person, you feel this too-much world deeply.

“It often happens when I feel like all the people and things around me (like chores, mobile phone alerts, traffic noise, neighbors being noisy, etc.) demand my attention, and I can’t escape from it.”