tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5621671244963306957.post1820928118215761463..comments2010-07-03T20:33:53.276-04:00Comments on Fusion: What it's like for a highly-sensitive person...Fusionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06412494922261494727noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5621671244963306957.post-64639373697785255952010-02-13T23:56:49.690-05:002010-02-13T23:56:49.690-05:00Oh the sleep thing, is so me. Temp has to be perfe...Oh the sleep thing, is so me. Temp has to be perfect, no noise,(unless its a fan) once Im up, cant go back to sleep.Stephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00421248832562220384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5621671244963306957.post-19912552163710664772010-02-12T17:59:50.628-05:002010-02-12T17:59:50.628-05:00my stepdad told me to not be so sensitive my whole...my stepdad told me to not be so sensitive my whole life and it made me feel like being emotional was a bad thing. now i know it's other people's issues that cause them to hide emotion and try to force it on me. so i don't care any more. but someone saying that to me still immediately makes me pissed off. even brian knows it's a tag phrase that will set me off. <br /><br />i get hot and sweaty so much that i avoid the outdoors and was always embarrassed about sweat marks all the time. i keep a floor fan next to the bathroom to cool me off after i take a shower while i get ready.<br /><br />when i spend time with groups of people i go hide in the bathroom for a little while to calm down because it overloads me completely. i also don't have a lot of friends because their drama drains me and i can't take it.<br /><br />medications hardly ever work for me. i end up on high mgs of meds because they plateau out easily. so we aren't twins on that one at all.<br /><br />i avoid caffeine except in chocolate. i don't drink soda unless it's caff-free. i try to buy decaf tea bags. it doesn't affect me a ton but i watched my aunt go through caff withdrawal in the hospital and it was appaling watching family sneak her pepsi's like they were crack.<br /><br />i used to have morning nausea from getting up early for as long as i could remember. i still get dry heaves if i move around to much after just waking up when it's early. i worry about not getting much sleep when i have kids and how it will mess me up since i get about 10-12 hours now after 3 years of insomnia from effexor xr. <br /><br />i finally accepted my issues and my own awesomeness when i did the personality type test and read "please understand me II" and realized i didn't need therapy to fix me. this is who i am and that it's not bad. and now i am proud to be a sensitive and emotional person because i feel things many people never will. and i find more people relate to me and talk to me about difficult stuff without me even prompting them. so as tough as it can be it's still pretty awesome being me.melissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01074937919222184142noreply@blogger.com