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!
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Well, I should have guessed I wasn’t highly sensitive. I basically just sense energy currents and fields. Sometimes I feel like thoughts are coming to me instead of from me, and there is a very subtle energy that I find occasionally that I equate with balance, which I can only feel recieved by my face. This last category is nice, because I do not feel pressured to respond in any particular way.
Thank you gals and guys for the tests! You are one of the view good websites with good content that isn’t clickbait and shallow. I love the personality quizzes!! I would like an article about high sensitivity (if any of you have good advise) because i’m struggling with it. And yes high sensitivity especially means being very empathetic and feeling too much. The current political and social situation depresses me. I can’t stand injustice. Sometimes emotions or feelings are too overwhelming. In this world being highly sensitive is a burden. It’s survival of the fittest but i want love,safety,compassion etc i want people to be happy and compassionate. But in this world or human matrix you can only be on top if you are indifferent and taff or sometimes evil as in corrupt and greedy. Sorry i don’t know how to put it in words and describe what i want to say. I just struggle with being highly sensitive. I hope they do more research on that topic and develop tips and tricks for hs people. I’m also starting to feel tired of life because all is too much and it looks like that there is more negative/destructive/evil out there… Read more »
already knew i was from reading elaine aron’s book🙋
Imma HSP
Bother, I wrote a heartfelt paragraph, but when I tried to initiate the Gravatar to my work, I lost my writing. Next time, huh?
Bother, I wrote a heartfelt paragraph, but when I tried to initiate the Gravatar to my work, I lost my writing. Next time, eh?
“You Scored 80
You’re a Highly Sensitive Person
Your score was 50 points meaning that you’re most likely a highly sensitive person! ”
Make up your mind – did I score 50 or 80? How can anyone have faith in this if you immediately contradict your own assertions? (Yeah, I know these tests are “for fun” and not absolute hard science, but still.)
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~