Dr Becky Black was in her 50s when she realised she was a 'highly sensitive person'. She says it's the concept has helped her better understand herself.
Perhaps you find yourself experiencing more emotion than friends or family, or find yourself overwhelmed by bright lights, sirens or the feel of certain fabrics.Becky Black was in her 50s when she read a book by American psychologists Elaine and Arthur Aron explaining the concept.
"My mum used to say, 'You are too sensitive.' I used to think that was a fault — that I needed to be less sensitive."Dr Black now works as a lecturer at the Centre for Wellbeing Science at Melbourne University's Graduate School of Education. She studied highly sensitive people and wellbeing for her PhD.Dutch researcher Sharell Bas and her colleagues interviewed 26 highly sensitive people and found people experienced SPS in different ways.
"The Arons who came up with the idea … are legitimate psychologists. The work was published in legitimate journals, it just hasn't really become a mainstream idea.""There's never any personality characteristic that is really a category. There are no personality types in the sense of groups where you are absolutely in it or out of it," he says.
She was trying to find a way to better understand her experience — and Aron's concept helped immensely. It's something she also encountered in her research.
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