POLL : TMS & HSP (Highly Sensitive Person)

Sorry, @ChronicVince, but I am never able to respond to these polls, because my desired response is always too nuanced for the questions.

I believe that my nervous system is highly sensitized to anything that my primitive survival brain thinks might be be a threat, including sudden loud noises or movement, bright light, strong odors etc. My automatic physical responses to these stimuli are much more sensitive than they used to be, and in fact too sensitive (for example, flinching at harmless noise or movement, becoming anxious about strong odors). It's not Not debilitating, but still, too much. I believe that a regular commited practice of meditation could probably help this.

But it seems like you might also be referring to emotional sensitivity regarding interactions with other people. I certainly think that I am sensitive to people's nuanced meanings, and I'm sensitive to how they seem to be reacting to me, but I am also quite quickly able to remind myself that whatever they're saying or indicating is probably nothing I need to take personally (it's undoubtedly not about me!) - and I believe it, too. However, I divorced my husband because he took everything personally to the point where he was complaining about everybody all the time. 20+ years of it, getting worse over time, wore me down until I couldn't take it anymore!

That's the long answer to your ostensibly simple poll. I don't have a short one