He was a highly sensitive person - a poet, remember - who felt things very deeply.

A highly sensitive person (HSP) is very easily affected by things.

By 2015, more than a million copies of The Highly Sensitive Person had been sold.

She's a highly sensitive person.

Highly sensitive persons may be overstimulated by the loud volumes in a movie theater or the background confusion of a large social gathering.

Dodd is a highly sensitive person and struggles with OCD and anxiety.

The Highly Sensitive Person in Love.

Highly Sensitive Person Test (short version)

Making Work Work for the Highly Sensitive Person.

The Highly Sensitive Person's Workbook.

Thorough washing after exposure does not prevent a severe dermatitis in highly sensitive persons; it may, however, reduce the reaction in those who are less sensitive.

The Highly Sensitive Person (book) (Elaine Aron)

Elaine Aron: A Seminar on Learning How to Thrive as a Highly Sensitive Person.

Aron has characterized highly sensitive persons as having "increased sensitivity to stimulation" and who "are more aware of subtleties and process information in a deeper, more reflective way."

In support of this distinction, Aron showed that the Highly Sensitive Person Scale identified a sizable proportion of 'extroverted' sensitive persons (30%).

Highly Sensitive Person Scale, a measure of HSPs' defining trait, sensory processing sensitivity (SPS)

I credit Elaine Aron's book "The Highly Sensitive Person" for helping me understand that some people are less sensitive to things and some are more sensitive.

The phrase "highly sensitive person" had been used before the 1990s, such as colloquially to denote the opposite of "tough" or even technically as an indication of affective sensitivity (empathy).

One bite of a cookie with ground peanuts can cause a life-threatening emergency in someone with a peanut allergy, while just the smell of fish can make a highly sensitive person feel ill.

However, in the mid-1990s Drs. Elaine and Arthur Aron first formally identified sensory processing sensitivity (SPS), the scientific term for high sensitivity, as the defining trait of highly sensitive persons.

The Highly Sensitive Person, subtitled How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You, is a non-fiction book by psychologist Elaine N. Aron, PhD, that discusses highly sensitive persons (HSPs).

The compulsion to live in isolation can be attributed to any number of factors, said Elaine N. Aron, a psychologist and the author of “The Undervalued Self” and “The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You.”

According to the psychologist Elaine Aron, author of the book Psychotherapy and the Highly Sensitive Person, 70% of children with a careful temperament grow up to be introverts, meaning they prefer minimally stimulating environments — a glass of wine with a close friend to a raucous party full of strangers.

Highly sensitive person (abbreviated HSP; sometimes capitalized Highly Sensitive Person in the popular press) is the psychology term first popularized in the mid-1990s to denote a person having a high measure of the innate trait whose scientific name is sensory processing sensitivity (SPS).