gtzdds对《The Highly Sensitive Person》的笔记(7)

Everyone, HSP or not, feels best when neither too bored nor too aroused.

I always ask this(first memory) in my interviews----even if inaccurate, what is recalled usually sets the tone or provides the theme of the whole life.

Charles's parents were delighted by his sensitivity. In their circle of friends----their artistic, intellectual subculture----sensitivity was associated with particular intelligence, good breeding, and fine tastes. Rather than being upset that he studied so much instead of playing games with other boys, his parents encouraged him to read even more. To them, Charles was the ideal son.

He has deep emotions that can lead to accasional depression, but he explores and resolves his feelings. He knows he takes things too hard but tries to allow for that.

"Does your pause-to-check/advisor system rule alone, thanks to a quiet activator/worrior-king system? That is, is it easy for you to be content with a quiet life? Or are the two branches that govern you in constant conflict? That is, do you always want to be trying new things even if you know that will be exhaused?"

long-term system of arousal, that is governed more by hormones. The quick effect of its main product is cortisol.

The short-term alert(higher levels of heartbeat, respiration, perspiration, pupil dilation, and adrenaline) dies out, and the long-term alarm never goes off.

If you have trouble sleeping, make this your first priority.