Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. Highly sensitive people (HSPs), or people with sensory processing sensitivity, ...

Highly sensitive people move through the world like emotional tuning forks—picking up on subtleties most others miss, feeling deeply, and reacting to things others barely register. But to the outside ...

Last week, someone I’ve been working with for over a year – let’s call her “Liz” – entered the therapy room looking absolutely defeated. Before I could ask a single question, Liz broke down into ...

Sensitivity to sound, light and touch affect neurodivergent people differently. Here are the strategies and tech products I use to help me function. John Carlsen has more than a decade of experience ...

The symptoms seem like normal toddler or preschool behaviors: picky eating, tantrums over what clothes to wear and clumsiness. But for some children extreme sensitivity to certain things can be ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. Your strengths as a highly sensitive person might be underestimated, but ...