New Delhi, September 27 (IANS). Every person has his own human characteristics. This quality is determined by the kind of environment in which he was brought up. How has his family environment been? What kind of people have been around him? How has his social environment been? What kind of people did he interact with? Many other such factors play an important role in determining the human qualities of a person.
One of these human qualities is called ‘hyper-sensitivity’ in the language of psychology. You must have heard many people saying that such and such person is very sensitive, so and so person is like this or like that.
IANS had a detailed conversation with Dr. Rajeev Mehta, senior psychiatrist of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, regarding extreme sensitivity. Dr. Mehta explains, “A highly sensitive person is one who has the immense ability to understand any event from different aspects or rather to understand it deeply, but if this ability increases, then undoubtedly it will negatively impact his daily life. Can affect in different ways.”
When asked whether extreme sensitivity can be called a disease, he clearly said, “It is a kind of nature. But, here you have to keep one thing in mind that if this behavior or nature of yours starts affecting your social or professional life in a big way or your extreme sensitivity is so much that it is affecting your everyday life, you should get rid of the relationship. If you are having difficulty in creating, if you are having difficulty in your professional work, then it is definitely an illness.”
After all, what are the reasons due to which a person’s behavior becomes extremely sensitive? In response to this question, Dr. Mehta explains, “There can be many reasons behind this, like if someone is under stress, is worried about something, is thinking about some topic again and again, then in such situations any person can Behavior becomes very sensitive. But apart from this, there can be many other factors which can make a person sensitive. For example, if one has lived in a family environment where there is lack of communication or even if communication is happening, it is just taunting each other, putting each other down, sometimes due to more responsibilities. A person’s behavior also becomes sensitive.”
He explains, “Generally, being highly educated can also sometimes make a person’s behavior sensitive, because such a person has the ability to look at any subject from different aspects, but this does not mean that Higher education is useless. But yes, it cannot be ruled out that a highly educated person can be sensitive.”
He further explains, “When a person is in a high position, where he has the psychological responsibility to deliver better results, then in such a situation that person can be sensitive. Apart from this, such children, who have received a lot of love from their parents in their childhood. When such children also grow up, it is seen that their behavior becomes sensitive.”
He further explains that a highly sensitive person has to face many problems in his life. Because of this behavior they have to face problems in their family and professional life. Apart from this, such people sometimes also become over thinkers. Because of this also they have to face problems.
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