Have you ever asked yourself, wether you are a highly sensitive person (HSP) or not? Today we take the test - together.

Elain Aron is the most important psychotherapist working in the field of high sensitivity today.In her book "The Highly Sensitive Person - How to strive when the world overwhelms you" she published a test with 23 questions on the whole subject.If you didn’t read the book, I can highly recommend her work. Link: https://amzn.to/3UxZI4x (Ad)

This way you can find out whether you are also on the spectrum of high sensitivity.

High sensitivity, like almost all personality traits, can be thought of as a kind of scale or spectrum. It is not that you are highly sensitive or not. It is not a black or white scheme, it is fluid. Everyone is somewhere on the sensitivity spectrum. I would say that high sensitivity is in the top 30 - 20 % of that scale.

Remember that this is only a theoretical test. The human psyche is a very complex entity and highly individual, so it cannot be easily categorised.

I always keep this in mind when I do a personality test. However, in my experience, the following question scheme can serve as a good rough guide.

So let's get started. I will read the 23 questions one by one. For each question you make a note whether this is true or false for you. In the end you calculate how many of the questions are true. I will tell you about the scoring in the end of the episode.

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Elaine Aron's Website: https://hsperson.com/

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