Are you anxious, introverted or just a ‘highly sensitive person?’Kanye West and Lorde say they are HSPs. Those who are not highly sensitive are often compared to dandelions because their welfare is generally less dependent on external support. In the realm of whether a person is highly sensitive (orchid) and not (dandelion), tulips fall somewhere in the middle. Photo: EPA-EFEHYSTERIAThe idea of a highly sensitive person may seem to recall 19th-century diagnoses of neurasthenia and hysteria, when “rest cures” were frequently prescribed for the overstimulated. Highly sensitive people have often been compared to orchids because they can only thrive when they have been nurtured.

Source: Taipei Times April 08, 2022 22:13 UTC