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Highly Sensitive? This Might Hit You Hard

26 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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A person reflects on a lifetime of being highly sensitive, using numbing and dissociation to cope with constant overwhelm. They describe feeling like a deer in the headlights and argue that reconnecting with your body is the most important part of being human.

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all my, um, my life as a highly sensitive person, I connect to that a lot because being in my body was uncomfortable, was overwhelming. I was like feeling like a deer in the headlights all the time. So all my coping mechanisms were about disconnecting, numbing, getting high, but really like separating myself from what I think now is like one of the most important parts of being a human being, which is like the physical.