questions to find out :
- Do you get overwhelmed by stimuli such as lights, noises, and smells?
- Do other people’s moods and emotions deeply affect you?
- Are you easily startled?
- Do you become uneasy when someone is watching you complete a task?
- Do you become tired easily after a “normal” day of activity?
- Are you aware of other things in your environment that most other people are not aware of?
- Do you become agitated or anxious when you have a lot of tasks to do and not enough time to complete all of them?
- Do you avoid disturbing or violent movies, books, or T.V. shows?
- Do you feel the need to escape and retreat when there is too much going on around you?
- Are you deeply interested in the arts or music?
- Do you dislike changes in your life?
- Do you enjoy delicate tastes, scents, sounds, soft fabrics, or beautiful works of art?
- Have you always been labeled as shy or sensitive by other people?
- Are you overly conscientious?
- Do you seem to be more sensitive to pain than other people?
- Are you sensitive to certain foods such as foods containing caffeine, sugar or alcohol?
- Do you become unpleasant when you are hungry?
- Do you easily sense the energies of places or situations?
- Are you easily touched by others' experience, stories of kindness, and courage?
- Are you attracted to the deeper things such as spirituality, self-development and philosophy?
- Do you need time alone?
- Are your feelings easily bruised?
- Do you have a vivid imagination?
If you answered "yes" to the majority or all of the questions listed above, you are most likely a highly sensitive person. If you answered yes to only a few of the questions listed above, you may still be considered a highly sensitive person.
Friday, August 14, 2009
are you a highly sensitive person (HSP) ?
I feel that my life is over. The boomers along with the extremely loud exhaust pipes on trucks is making my life a living hell. I love the outdoors but have isolated for the past year. I can't go to a park, walk in the neighborhood...eat at a restaurant or even attend a funeral without this audio terrorism filtering through the walls. With my apologies to the deaf community, I'd have my eardrums taken out tomorrow if it were possible.
People tell me to ignore it but it's so pervasive that quiet is almost impossible to achieve anymore.
I know there has to be a place in the U.S. that is isolated from traffic noise but I have no idea. I took an early retirement as a photo/journalist and can support myself to a degree and live anywhere. With my elderly, neurotic Manx rescue cat of course.
I've considered suicide on an almost daily basis. I don't like being in the house. I want to be out in Nature but the stress level that these thugs cause in my life is something I can't overcome. Any help or ideas would be appreciated.
I'm a 58 year old female. The Bear name ( my cat ) is on my Google account. My ideal situation would be to live with non smoking women my age who are in an area of solitude and could use a laid back roommate. I'm not nervous or uptight - very laid back except for having to deal with this noise. I'm not opposed to constructive noise. I could live at the end of an airport runway or next to a jackhammer testing facility. The noise I'm describing is destructive and those who perpetrate it know full well that they are annoying fellow human beings.
Post a Comment