Are you a highly sensitive person (HSP)? If you’re an HSP, you have a form of neurodivergence that causes you to experience sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and tactile sensations in an intense way.
You’ll also be highly attuned to the emotional energy of others, making you an empath who can often experience other’s feelings as your own.
You might be called “hypersensitive,” “touchy,” “thinned-skin,” “melodramatic,” and other labels by those who don’t understand your sensitivity.
As a result, you may feel different, weird, like something is “wrong” with you, or perhaps even broken, and this can cause you to feel 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.
However, at the same time, the intensity of an HSP’s neurodivergence means that they are more prone to having experiences of ecstasy, deep connection with life, and even spiritual states of awareness (such as spontaneous trance states or kundalini awakenings).
In other words, being an empathic HSP can be both a blessing and a curse!
Highly Sensitive Person Test
Remember to take this free highly sensitive person test with a grain of salt. It’s not meant to replace your own inner intuition and self-knowledge. Instead, this highly sensitive person test is meant to be used as a form of self-reflection and self-discovery.
This highly sensitive person test uses the DOES model to formulate its questions:
- D – Depth of Processing
- O – Overstimulation
- E – Emotional Reactivity / Empathy
- S – Sensing the Subtle
I hope you enjoy taking this free highly sensitive person test, and if you have any questions, share them in the comments!
Test Yourself Below!
What did you get?
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What makes you claim Ted Kaczinsky was highly sensitive????
I didn’t realize that I was THAT sensitive – scored an 85. I completely relate to everything in the article too…amazing
I got 50. Just responding to the questions helped me realize (more than I already did I guess) that I’m likely an empath. I guess it’s good that I’m retired now and have more control over my activities and interactions. I really like people but I prefer them in small doses. Even watching TV or Netflix programs that my grandkids like, with them, are challenging sometimes – the level of hype is so high these days. Maybe that’s why I don’t miss having Netflix (or similar media) or TV subscriptions. Books are more my thing. Even a book can get me hyped up or upset sometimes – sheesh! Thank goodness for knitting and crochet, lol. And I really appreciate you Aletheia and Matos for your help in navigating this world. Love to you both, and all other readers (and humans on this planet) on this day of celebrating love. May we all have a beautiful day.
Yea no…this definitely bothers me, I know I am very sensitive and I practice and explore it daily, quiz telling me I’m not leads me to believe I’m more sensitive than I thought and skeptical of those that wrote the quiz , listen your as sensitive you want to be, varying levels , you could be emotional numb still aware and open around you
i got 65! HSP! Knew it!! Ugh it’s definitely a blessing and a curse! Thank you so much for this! ❤️