Emotional hypersensitivity…
Being Accompanied in:
- Supporting your hypersensitive child.
- Understanding your sensitivity and its impact on daily life.
- Developing ways to better manage emotions, stress and your nervous system.
- Gradually exploring your emotional and sensory comfort zones.
- Managing your empathy and sensory abilities, if applicable.
What is neurodivergence emotional Hypersensitivity
It’s about constantly being atuned to your environment. The hypersensitive captures and feels everything, from the visible to the invisible, from the concrete to the emotional, what belongs to him/her or not. All this impacts the nervous system: mood, stress, fatigue… Thus, hypersensitivity can lead to constant tension in the body and mind, leading to hypervigilance or even anxiety.
The Weight…
Hypersensitives KNOW themselves to be different; often making them feel odd and misunderstood. This can lead to isolation, lack of self-worth and self-confidence, and even prioritizing the needs of others. So, aside from stress management strategies, the recognition and prioritization of their own needs are important aspects of my coaching.
The Need for Connection
In children, the ability to manage emotions develops gradually through the presence and support of their parents. For some more sensitive children, this need for security and support can be more pronounced. I can therefore help parents better understand their child’s needs and adapt their daily interactions.
I Can Help With :
- Tools for managing stress and emotions.
- Support in understanding their hypersensitivity.
- Developing self-confidence.
- Guidance in expressing emotions and needs.
- Support in managing sensory abilities.
Considering the Holistic Approach to emotional hypersensitivity
When relevant, it may be helpful to adopt a holistic approach to well-being, including lifestyle habits (sleep, diet, routines, etc.), in collaboration with healthcare professionals as needed.
Use of an Educational Plan (IEP) for emotional hypersensitivity
When the situation warrants it, a plan can be implemented to structure the achievement of specific objectives. This tool, used by specialized educators, is tailored to your child’s needs and resources, your parental support, and is based on measurable objectives. It encourages active participation and includes follow-up meetings to adjust strategies and support your progress.
Children aged 10 and under
During this period, the well-being of children mostly rely on co-regulation; fundamental needs for security and connection being met from parental interactions. That is why helping parents to better recognize their children’s needs and provide appropriate modeling can go a longer way in helping them.
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The Different Expressions:
Emotional
To intensely feel emotions, sometimes to the point of loosing control of them.
Extra-sensory (energetical)
The body emmits electromagnetic frequencies constantly. Therefore, it is possible, for those sensitive or attentive enough, to pick up on or absorb those kinds of information; others’ emotions, moods, intentions, tensions, etc. For children, this type of hypersensitivity can easily become a source of anxiety!
Immediate (very common among children)
To have immediate, often physical, reactions when an emotion is felt. For example; having a tummy ache when feeling anxious.
Retarded or displaced
Having feelings that stretch over time, which can bring back memories that make us re-experience past emotions or traumas. (Increases susceptibility to depression).
Sensory (touch)
Sensations on the skin that are often difficult to bear or tolerate.
Olfactory (smells)
Increased sensitivity to smells; which are often associated with memories or emotions.
Auditory (noises)
Increased discomfort to certain sounds and noises. Difficulty with rapid or extreme acoustic variations.
Electrosensitivity
Accute sensitivity to electromagnetic fields. This can cause an array of ailments; headaches, vertigos, paliptations, brain fog, skin problems, intense fatigue, etc.
Common Difficulties:
Hypersensitivity and feeling vulnerable often go hand in hand. This may heighten vigilance and reinforce the need for protection… translating itself into different self-limiting behaviors:
- Needing solitude and isolation.
- Avoiding attention and wanting to become invisible.
- Fear of speaking in groups and standing up for yourself.
- Difficulty recognizing and expressing your own needs.
- Taking on other’s well-being on your shoulders.
- Having to continiously project the image of a strong person!!
- Melancholy caused by a lack of authenticity and fear of being your true self.
- Fatigue and lack of energy… because all of these behaviors eat away at your inner resources!
Why does anxiety get in the mixde l’hypersensibilité émotionnelle
We could sum up anxiety as a constant negative anticipation of life situations. This is caused by a persistant physiological reaction to stress, combined with a fertile imagination. It then provokes a nervous system overload; which can have dire physical, mental and emotional impacts.
Our emotional reactions are managed by the cerebral amygdala, whose role is to filter what we perceive into two categories: pleasant and safe or unpleasant and threathening. When we perceive a threath, the amygdala reacts in 3 different ways: fight, flight, or freeze.
Usually, the physiological stress response (cortisol, adrenaline) dissipates when the threath dissapears; a process that greately imply our eyes.
Unfortunately, the many informations perceived by the various forms of hypersensitivity are invisible to the eye and tend to stimulate the imagination more. Therefore, fighting or fleeing an invisible threath becomes impossible and tiresome for the brain! At some point, the only reaction left is “freeze”… thus creating a sense of powerlessness!
And so, while this powerlessness continues to be felt inside, the physiological stress response can never truly settle down. In the long run, this can bring on chronic stress, or even anxiety.
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