“Imagine a world in which three to four million people are suddenly struck by a serious, recurring illness. There is chronic pain, trauma and injury. Authorities fail to draw any connection between individual bouts with the disease and the greater public threat. Many suffer in silence” -Joseph R. Biden, former chairman of the US Senate Judiciary Committee describing his own country, the United States of America; the “disease” is domestic violence.
It has been roughly estimated that 1 woman in 3 has been beaten, forced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime around the globe. The implications of this are insurmountable, after all women are representatives of creative principles. Recently in the news, there has been a an article that barely touches the tip of the iceberg of this problematic.
by Elaine Aron was published nearly 10 years ago and it has changed the life of thousands of readers. Just imagine, a highly sensitive person (HSP) may think of herself or himself as an inborn introvert, neurotic or shy person, or as if she or he has some sort of problem and when a non-HSP psychologist or even when the average non-HSP person describes sensitive individuals according how they “look like”, they usually describe them wrongly as introverts, shy people, timid, neurotics, etc. But this is not necessarily true for the HSP and actually, some non-HSP can be described that way too.
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