Do you find loud noises or lots of stimuli overwhelming at once? Then you might be #highlysensitive. Highly sensitive people perceive stimuli more strongly, are less able to filter them and therefore feel exhausted more quickly. According to studies, this affects around 15 to 20% of all people. Thora also knows situations like this where everything just becomes too much for her. Do you sometimes experience signs of #hypersensitivity? In this episode of #TerraXplore, Thora meets Pauline. Pauline is highly sensitive and has found her own way of dealing with it. What does her everyday life look like? How does she manage to deal with #overstimulation? And can #highsensitivity be a #superpower instead of a weakness? Thora also does the self-test and speaks to a #psychologist: What kind of suffering do highly sensitive people experience? And: Is high sensitivity even a recognized diagnosis? What happens in the brain and how can you tell if you are affected yourself? ******* CHAPTERS: 00:00 Intro: What is high sensitivity? 00:53 What is it like to be highly sensitive? 02:51 What is high sensitivity from a scientific perspective? What is the current state of research? 05:09 How to deal with high sensitivity 06:50 Self-test: Is Thora highly sensitive? 10:36 What can help with high sensitivity? 12:00 Conclusion: Is high sensitivity a weakness or a superpower? ******* You can find more videos from the Terra X cosmos in the media library: http://kurz.zdf.de/XploreOL/ Terra X on Facebook: / zdfterrax Terra X on Instagram: / terrax ******* OUR SOURCES: ???? Orchids, tulips and dandelions: The study that found that high sensitivity is the extreme of a continuum. This means that the question is not whether you are highly sensitive or not, but how sensitive you are. https://www.nature.com/articles/s4139... ????EHA study by the Helmut Schmidt University (already completed), in which the questionnaire that Thora made was used: https://www.hsu-hh.de/diffpsych/eha-s... ????Working report of studies that deal with high sensitivity in the work context https://boris.unibe.ch/141844/1/Arbei... ???? Study that shows: Highly sensitive people take a closer look https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20203... ???? Study: Highly sensitive children benefit more from psychological interventions (e.g. against bullying) than less sensitive children http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/89853/1/Plue... MORE INFO: ???? Here you can find Elaine Aron's self-test https://hsperson.com/test/highly-sens... ???? Latest research from the Helmut Schmidt University on the subject of high sensitivity https://www.hsu-hh.de/diffpsych/herzl... ????Here you can find further exciting information on the subject https://www.hochsensibel.org/index.php ******* IN THE VIDEO Pauline Holst, is highly sensitive Prof. Dr. Philipp Yorck Herzberg, Professor of Personality Psychology Marcus Bürger, research associate at the Helmut Schmidt University ******* CREDITS Script & Direction: Maria Patz Research: Helena Gries Camera: Oliver Ramm Sound: Till Blanke Editing: Maximilian Andereya Graphics: Marc Trompetter Editors: Eva Nowack, Angelika Hoffmann, Harald Platz Production: Josefine Beitel, Freda Adilovic, Moritz Bömicke