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Originally Posted by ablankscript
Have you ever heard of "highly sensitive persons"? Now you focus on spd and ocpd, but there are many other personality disorders that usually occur along side each other or are mistaken for each other. Some specialists claim that aspergers and spd are the same just named by different people in different places. Then there a number of different degrees and sub types of spd and aspergers is being added to the autism spectrum. There is also schizotypal and schizoaffective disorders. It can be very frustrating not knowing what is going on in our heads but don't allow it to cause you unneeded stress.
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Hmm. Hadn't heard of highly sensitive persons, looked it up briefly... I'll have to read more on it, apparently it's a term used by psychologists but doesn't sound like an actual "condition". According to a checklist I found to see if you are HSP, if you identify with more than 14 of the statements you're probably highly sensitive. I checked 19 out of 24.
What types of therapy do you think are helpful for dealing with sensitivity in general? When all I knew about was the OCPD I was looking at dialectical behavior therapy, to help me not freeze up in conversations, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy, thinking it might allow me to cope with the fear of the "trauma" of someone being unhappy with me, which I think is what causes me to freeze up.