When the Sensitive Turn to Steel: How and Why Highly Sensitive People Can Become Unflappable, Distrustful, and Unapologetically Detached
Highly Sensitive People (HSPs) often present as anxious, trusting, and empathetic. But under certain circumstances, they can transform into the opposite: unflappable, distrustful, and detached. This transformation is not necessarily dysfunction; it could be a healthy adaptation, as this article explains.
My Empowerment from Understanding I’m a Highly Sensitive Person
For most of my life, I felt like there was something fundamentally wrong with me. It wasn’t until my late thirties that I finally stumbled across a term that explained so much of what I had been experiencing: Highly Sensitive Person. Thankfully, this understanding has been one of the most freeing realizations of my life.