The HSP Dimension: Expressions of Highly Sensitive People
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Post by lm8 Fri Aug 26, 2022 10:43 am

There's been some backlash during the pandemic about people advising others to think positively to the point we now have a term called toxic positivity. There's also been a lot of talk about resilience during the pandemic. It looks like people are finally starting to question that as well:
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/16/1117725653/why-being-resilient-might-matter-less-than-you-think
It's interesting in light of what HSP research has investigated regarding vantage sensitivity and classifying resilience as "vantage insensitivity".
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Post by melodiccolor Fri Aug 26, 2022 2:11 pm

It is interesting. She's advising people to be more like HSP in a way; to embrace and listen to emotions as a healthy way of dealing with adversity and hardship. Mostly we get advised to be less sensitive, to suck it up and move on; that is what the popular definition of resilience has become. It's something well entrenched in many cultures now.
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