I am bipolar, as is my son, and have been dealing with it for years. To be honest not with a whole lot of success. Recently I was researching bipolar disorder when I came across an article written about the highly sensitive person and I was so taken aback. It was if it was written for me. I have always had this need to understand my intense emotion and the way I am because of them. I know a lot about bipolar, I'm positive that I have it but there was always this feeling in me that besides bipolar I was different. Now that I have read most of Elaine Aron's book I am positive that I am also an hsp. I'm so overwhelmed in my life right now everything seems to exhaust me. I am exhausted most of the time with spurts of energy. I wanted to reach out to other people like me, hear their stories, to communicate with people that understand what it's like to be highly sensitive.