The Biggest Problems Highly-Sensitive People Have to Cope With (and How to Solve Them)!

Constantly on the receiving end. Highly sensitive people are like finely tuned receivers for the thoughts, feelings and motives of those around them. No whim remains undiscovered, no interpersonal drama passes them by without a trace.

People are an open book to them, without them even verbally revealing their life stories. Even if they don't want to, their ears hear more than the average person. Their eyes and all their other senses get much more out of life because they have been blessed with empathy that is second to none.

After hectic days full of social interactions, the highly sensitive always need longer periods of retreat to regain their strength. But even this time they use to reflect on all the experiences and sort through all the stories that have come their way.

Some incidents are particularly challenging for the highly sensitive. We'll show you the 7 biggest challenges they face in this article.

Feelings hit like bombs.

Joy and sorrow, fear, sadness, anger and shame are all gale forces to the highly sensitive. Hardly any emotional impulse does not penetrate to them, and what other people may hardly notice, touches them as if pierced to their heart.

It is particularly painful for the sensitive when they themselves are caught in the crossfire of emotional attacks. For example, they handle criticism very badly, it hits them directly in their soul. If they are lied to or betrayed, the effects on their emotional state are almost unbearable. What other people more or less easily put away or soon forget, often torments them for months.

They can hardly forgive an attack, or forget a begrudging message that was directed at them. Everything bores into their memory like a poisonous sting. The solution, the primary keyword of choice here should be:

Acceptance, come to terms with being who you are. It is perfectly okay to be the sensitive one. You belong to a special group of people with special abilities, but also with special needs. Accept your strong emotional side and don't fight it.

Low self-esteem.

The feeling of being different has haunted highly sensitive people since kindergarten. It’s a shame that being labeled "different" as a child always automatically means something negative. This attitude persists into adulthood.

The sensitive ones struggle with their sensitivity and the amount of time they need for themselves. Other people tell them they don't socialize enough or that they are weirdos. The result is a lack of self-esteem. What can you do about it?

We have to take ourselves, loosely based on Konrad Adenauer, as we are. There is no other version. No one has the right to think we are strange or insufficient. We ourselves least of all.

Relationships.

How to live as a human being with other people who cost strength and energy? How should highly sensitive people make it clear to their loved ones that they should not take their occasional periods of withdrawal personally?

Leading a partnership and maintaining friendships are hard work for highly sensitive people. Many therefore prefer a life as a modern hermit and permanent singles. The solution of complete withdrawal from the world is not the ultimate solution.

Instead, highly sensitive people should focus on quality relationships that give them the necessary freedom. Most importantly, value trust and the security of being accepted as you are.

Your body is misused as a compensation instrument.

When the soul is at a loss, the body has to step in. Many people feel that the battles raging inside them are brought out into the open and directed against their own bodies. Highly sensitive people also tend to develop compensatory strategies such as eating, alcohol, or sports addiction.

The solution, though, is that you can't fight the plague with another plague. If one part of us suffers, no other part is able to cure this wound. Rather, we must confront the causes instead of fighting the symptoms, which we have mostly self-inflicted.

The feeling of not really belonging anywhere.

Since childhood, highly sensitive people are confronted with their otherness. The suspicion that they do not fit into any group becomes stronger with increasing age. Therefore, they often think for half of their life that there is something wrong with them. This disorientation runs through them like a red thread.

What brings joy to others is pure stress for them. The solution, look at the world like a stage, it needs as many players in it as there are roles to fill. Yours is that of the highly sensitive person who is important and valuable to others. Protect your boundaries, but also be aware of your responsibilities.

Expressing your anger is difficult for you.

Many highly sensitive people consider it rude to let their anger off the leash for once. They prefer to swallow it down, where it sits like a rock in their stomach and begins to ferment. These people don't want to seem unkind and then often feel ashamed that they can't express their needs. But anger is an emotion that has the same right to exist as any other.

Highly sensitive people have a hard time staking out their boundaries and telling other people what they think when they behave inappropriately. This creates a kind of emotional stalemate. Also, what you reject, you empower. The solution: stand by every one of your feelings, even the less lovely ones.

It is not a sign of weakness to get angry sometimes, on the contrary, it shows that you are still alive and not dead inside. Honor your anger and find out what situations and behaviors are causing it to rise from the depths of your innermost being.

Highly sensitive people are emotional sponges.

The highly sensitive people among us are naturally among the good people and they are very empathic. People in their social environment is therefore particularly attracted to them and tends to pour out its heart to them.

Thus, it happens time and again that the sensitive ones literally absorb all the negative energies that are brought to them in the course of a conversation. None of these encounters leaves them untouched. The solution, you must learn to protect your boundaries. Only then can you permanently avoid absorbing the energies of everyone else. Simple visualization exercises will help.

For example, imagine a protective shell that you create around your person like a balloon of white or golden light. Through this protective shield of positive energy, no more negativity can penetrate to you, brought to you by outsiders. Also, set limits on your time and availability. Learn to distinguish which people are important to you and which are not.

Today’s Conclusion:

Between running the gauntlet and taking evasive action. Highly sensitive people share every joy, but especially every sorrow, with their fellow human beings. While their interlocutors feel better following a conversation with them, they are drained and depressed. But they cannot run away from life, nor is an existence as a modern hermit to be recommended. Therefore, for social contacts, the dose makes the poison. That's it for today.