Are you a highly sensitive person (HSP)?
If you’re an HSP, you will experience the world in an intense way. As a neuroatypical individual, you will be deeply in touch with the sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and tactile sensations of life – as well as the emotional energy of others.
You might be called “hypersensitive,” “too much,” “thinned-skin,” “melodramatic,” and other labels by those who don’t understand your sensitivity. As a result, you may feel different, weird, broken, and isolated from others because they can’t relate to your way of perceiving and experiencing life.
Highly sensitive people often struggle with processing all of the sensory input they experience each day, and may experience more burnout, anxiety, and depression than others. But at the same time, the intensity of HSPs means that they are more prone to having experiences of ecstacy, deep connection with life, and even spiritual states of awareness (such as undergoing a spiritual awakening).
Highly Sensitive Person Test
To discover whether you’re a highly sensitive person, the best thing to do is to take a test. There are many questionnaires out there, but below we’ve created one that will calculate the likelihood of you being a HSP by giving you a percentage score.
Remember to take this free highly sensitive person test with a grain of salt. It’s not meant to diagnose you, but give you an idea of the likelihood of you being an HSP according to our own standards.
So … what are you waiting for? Test yourself with our free highly sensitive person test, and find out for yourself!
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First, can i just say, I love this site. It’s so encouraging and informative.
I am a HSP, which makes sense due to my BPD, anxiety, and depression. I tend to struggle with emotions and being overwhelmed by my feelings, which is dangerous for me, as i have a strong shadow side (or dark side). I tend to withdraw from others and isolate myself due to some traumatic experiences in life, such as when i was cyberbullied because of my ‘hyper’sensitivity, which actually caused me to become desensitized and unemotional until lately, when i am finally recovering, and that recovery is in part thanks to you. Do you have any advice on how to accept my sensitive side so that i don’t have to feel ashamed of it or feel like it is a weakness that can be exploited?
Having BPD tendencies and depression, I often feel like my empathic qualities are overlooked and everything is just tacked onto my struggles with mental health. I received a 90%. I’m working on seeing it as a strength and not so much of a bane, it’s just unfortunate I never feel this is appreciated from others who have been in my life (and of course are no longer). I always try to hear people, but have struggled with falling into those traps of martyrdom which many of your articles discuss. Thanks for the insightful posts. They have helped me a long while~
I’m sorry to hear of your struggles Feral Arcane – that must be disheartening and frustrating. It’s hard to educate people who are already aware of your diagnosis. Hopefully those who don’t respect your good qualities will be replaced with those who do. It might even be worth keeping your diagnosis in the background until you feel comfortable sharing it, so that it doesn’t come to define you.
Many blessings,
Luna