#highly sensitive

[safe-haven-safe-place]

[darkestdreams]

protect me, my love

[imaginarylungfish]

i need to remember i am sensitive and things will hurt. avoiding the hurt is useless. it's inevitable. so rather than using all my energy to avoid it, i can accept and let the hurt happen. i can let myself hurt. i can feel my pain. i will be okay.

[purlturtle]

Here's to everyone who made it through the holidays by the skin of their teeth.

Here's to the respite after.

Don't worry if you have a day (or five) where you're down and exhausted - you masked and fronted and swallowed a lot; give yourself some grace while you recuperate from that.

Rest now, be kind to yourself (and to others who might be in the same boat).

(especially in the northern hemisphere where days are short and dreary this time of year.)

[trashandwriting]

On real hypersensitivity

People don't realize being hypersensitive is not exactly about "this place is too loud" or "that's too much at once". That's just the simplified version of what happens.

It's about standing in a public place and a band is playing and you have to listen to the band since you can't just close your ears and you also notice how there is a group of three older man who seem to be lost and that mother with her child who dropped her plushie while her husband asks of she wants to go eat icecream and the woman next to you is ordering a coffee and several people are dancing and your mom is standing next to you and asks you a question, and you think about that question while you think simultaneously about if you should pick up that child's plushie or tell the men that this is not the place they were looking for and also how you wanted to go to the new coffee shop across the street, while you also have to lead the way and think about what bus to take. This, every second standing there, with hardly a pause. And there is NO WAY to block out any of this.

That's the whole point of hypersensitivity. All of this is getting in your head at once and that's just too much for a longer time. In an hour, you will probably still remember the colours of that three old men's t shirts. It's too much not because we are weak, but because we have no filter in our brains.

[chiomakedu]

you ever…get too excited abt something and your body plunges into a stress response?

[liminalspacewizard]

[ascendedunicorn]

Make sure you're recharging and taking care of yourself 💜