What is Sensory Processing Sensitivity? Traits, Insights, and ADHD Links
Sensory processing sensitivity is a trait that explains why up to 30 percent of people experience strong reactions to stimuli – strong smells, bright lights, other people’s moods, and even caffeine. Here, learn about the latest research on highly sensitive people, and how SPS compares to ADHD.
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I am reflective and very empathetic to suffering, but I am impulsive. I have a lot of sensory sensitivities, in all 5 senses, with light and sound being the worst and when I get a strong, to the core, “gut feeling” about a transaction, pending event, or someone, at age 52, I know to trust that, and since I have become older and wiser, it’s never let me down. I have ADHD and I am an empath, most profoundly for suffering. I look at homeless people, and abused or injured animals and I take on their stress, hurt and pain. I try to help all creatures who need it, even giving homeless people the last of my money or clothes off my back. The joy I feel if I can ease their suffering is compared to nothing else, and even if I just make another being’s day a bit better, that is enough for me. But even though I truly like helping people, I have to be careful what I do for a living or I will be eaten alive if it’s working with disadvantaged people who are abused, traumatized, assaulted, homeless, mentally ill (without relief) and the like.