Mental Health

Highly sensitive people, because of their sensitive nervous systems, empathetic natures and tendency to have a wide variety of genetic disorders can suffer from mental health problems. They can range from social discomfort to severe anxiety disorders, feelings of sadness to severe depression, challenges with stress to severe stress disorders. Panic attacks, identity issues and genetic problems like schizophrenia are also found in highly sensitive people.

HSP’s need to be vigilant in taking care of their health in order to manage the mental challenges caused by the highly sensitive trait.

Change Your Brain, Change Your Life!

by 05.18.2012 Brain Function

Thoughts really do create our lives. New research by Fred Travis, Maharishi University of Management in the US, Harald Harung, Oslo University College in Norway, and Yvonne Lagrosen, University West in Sweden on the brains of musicians demonstrates the potentially for highly developed brains that are open, curious, learning, playful and holistic in their thinking. The [...]

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The Wound Of Materialism

by 05.14.2012 Constructive Self

Materialism destroys our environment as this picture shows. It also destroys so much more. It destroys our humanity. Every society defines its purposes and priorities.  There was a time when the material side of life was extremely lacking and improving the human standard of living was a necessary and important goal. So the Western world, [...]

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Motivation And Your Brain: What You May Not Know

by 05.11.2012 Brain Function

Do you seem to have different motivations that others? Do you have respond differently than others to similar events and stimuli? Check your brain. It may hold an important clue. Motivation is an important subject, one that has been the subject of intense interest for thousands of years. Human societies tend to create a profile [...]

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Naysayers And HSP’s

by 05.07.2012 Constructive Self

Do naysayers drive you up the wall? Highly sensitive people can have difficulty with naysayers. Particularly if they consider themselves wiser than the naysayers – which, frankly, can be quite often. Extroverts can be hard for highly sensitive people to understand because they often seem brash and aggressive but not necessarily insightful. Highly sensitive people [...]

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Why Aggression Is A Mistake

by 05.02.2012 Mental Health

  Aggression is a mistake. Given the condition of human society at the moment, that may seem to be a radical statement. And perhaps it is. Why is aggression a mistake? Aggression assumes an enemy or an adversary of some kind. It defines other parts of our world as “other” and as something or someone [...]

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Why We Demonize Each Other

by Maria 04.18.2012 Constructive Self

Why do we demonize each other? In 2012, we are able to recognize that demonizing others is a problem. However, our ancestors may not have had the same perspective. Here are some of the reasons our forbears demonized: survival. This is the oldest reason. Our ancestors did not have all the mechanisms for survival that we [...]

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Quiet by Susan Cain: Book Review

by 04.13.2012 Constructive Self

If you haven’t read Susan Cain‘s fabulous book, the bestseller Quiet The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, you are missing out. Susan’s light approachable style takes a challenging subject and makes it accessible. Susan’s book not only explores introversion but also questions the extrovert ideal that dominates the Western world. Quiet is [...]

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Why We Cop Out

by Maria 04.11.2012 Mental Health

Have you ever thought one thing and done another? Have you ever changed your mind when in a group that had different ideas? I know I have and it made me feel like a wimp.Being an HSP means that my positions are not the norm, and I am always seeking ways to bridge the difference. [...]

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How To Eliminate The Inner Critic In 5 Minutes Or Less

by 04.09.2012 Mental Health

Perhaps your inner critic is nicer to you than mine is to me. Perhaps not. The inner critic is one of the main causes of unhappiness in life. It is a master at helping us to feel bad about something. The list is endless: something wrong with us or the world; it never stops, until [...]

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Is Depression A Human Invention?

by Maria 04.06.2012 Mental Health

Depression. © by S.Hart Photography A recent article based on research into brain function and depression discovered that a part of the brain identified as the “hate circuit” is uncoupled or inactive in depressed people.  It showed that depressed people do not respond to a hated person or image the way a person who is not [...]

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