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  • February 18, 2015 at 11:43 pm #72985
    Gertrude O.
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    Hello Racheal, I am so thankful to you for bringing this forth. I did take the test and they both came out as strongly positive. I know I’m introverted but not also a sensation seeker plus highly sensitive to pain! I am discovering myself, and the more I do, the more I feel I would love to learn more.
    Just recently, beginning of the year did I really understand myself, a little even though. I get pretty exhausted with so much conversation, I love darker rooms to recharge but I also love being an explorer. I thought myself as strange, the online world is teaching me a lot of what I hadn’t and probably would never have known about myself! I am pretty excited about learning me more and more. Thank you for the quizzes.

    February 19, 2015 at 8:34 am #72998
    Rachael
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    Gertrude, your welcome and isn’t fun to read about them both? I always felt pulled by two competing impulses and it is nice to understand why. I had just learned about highly sensitive people from a comment someone else had posted here about being upset by a movie. I looked it up and took the test but felt confused because even though I got all but one on the highly sensitive person test, I still felt a bit more adventureous that other HSPs, that is why everything made so much more sense when I took the high sensation seeking test. For me, I am very sensitive to lights, sounds, smells, and other sensations as well as to violent or upsetting movies. My husband teases me because I jump out of my chair when anything startling happens in a movie, even when I am bracing myself for it to happen. I also am very sensitive to pain and when I have a stressful or confrontational experience with another person it can stay with me for weeks and even years. On the other hand, I am addicted to travel, I have gone sky diving and I get bored really easily. I am also always looking for new or novel experiences. I thought it was interesting that Elaine suggested that there is a very limited range of stimuli we HSP/HSSs are comfortable with- too much and we’re overwhelmed, too little and were bored.

    Do you mind if I ask what you do for a living? I am switching out of my career and trying to find a career that satisfies both aspects of myself. Being HSP, I am very reflective on human nature and I care very much about the deeper questions in life, but being HSS I get bored with routine. I have thought about being a public speaker and author to share what I have learned but I am afraid that being around large groups of people might leave me overstimulated and wiped out. I was just wondering what, if anything, you’ve done to resolve that tension in yourself.

    November 16, 2016 at 12:03 pm #120514
    Peter
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    Hi Rachael,

    May not pick this up as original post from long ago. I hope you have well, enjoying life and work. Discovered HSS/HSP and it seems to be true for me too.

    As a kid I was…well painfully shy…would hardly talk at school and had a small but close friendship circle. I often held back, was quiet, cautious and bit of a worrier. Unfortunately a fairly rough schools I’d be picked on because of this.

    As a teenager, I grew more independent, enjoyed sports, reckless risk taking, night clubs and soft drugs. I’d be out all night and quiet in the day. Living a kinda of double life of shyness and reckless adventure.

    As an adults, more extreme sports like whitewater kayaking, mountain biking and normal stupid drinking etc. But I had enough of that, and used travel and an ambitious career to get my kicks so to speak. 🙂 All the while being wallflower and wild one.

    People found me unpredictable as one moment I’m a quiet worrier, to next risk-taker.

    As an older adult, the drinking is sensible, partying more in balance with my life and I’m using my HSP/HSS as a strength.

    My HSP side helps me work closely and with kindness with clients and I am able to pick up smallest things that make me better at my job. I now run my garden business, which has the physical challenge, variety and distance from distractions perfect for me.

    My HSS helps me as a kind of entrepreneur running new projects and social groups.

    I do love these characteristics that have hurt me so much in the past. I still struggle with worries, being effected by others moods and managing conflicts in relationships. I hope I can improve both my relationship with my girlfriend and with myself so that I can not overreact to the small Knocks we receive everyday. I’ve come so far from my misspent youth.

    Can I ask do you find it ok to balance the excitement, overwelming feelings, reactions to small and large criticisms and inpulsiveness of relationships?

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