Emotional sensitivity

Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, or Ecstasy ) is an illicit drug used by young adults who attend rave dance parties in the U.S., Europe, and elsewhere. The allure of MDMA is related to its unique psychoactive effects, which include amphetamine-like stimulant actions, coupled with feelings of increased emotional sensitivity and closeness to others.1-2 Epidemiological data indicate that MDMA misuse among children and adolescents is widespread in the U.S.3-4 In... 

Even more perhaps than other kinds of genius, religious leaders have been subject to abnormal psychical visitations. Invariably they have been creatures of exalted emotional sensitivity liable to obsessions and fixed ideas and frequently they have fallen into trances, heard voices, seen visions, and presented all sorts of peculiarities which are ordinarily classed as pathological." ... 

When we go to school we are required to take innumerable courses designed to develop our intellectual intelligence, and even a few physical education courses to develop specialized aspects of our body/instinctive intelligence. But there is an almost total lack of education of our emotional brains. Some of us were fortunate enough to be born with exceptional emotional talent and sensitivity, or our lives forced us to develop and refine our emotional sensitivities. For most of us, though, our emotional brain remains largely at the level of an untrained idiot. 

Increased emotional sensitivity and reduced emotional controls. Increased emotional arousal or pain may motivate a person to become more socially withdrawn and can often lead to a host of negative conclusions regarding personal competency, as in, "What s wrong with me I m crying like a baby."... 

The water signs share an emotional sensitivity and a well-developed sense of intuition. If water is your element, this chapter describes you. In these pages, I present your most commendable traits and your most pitiful ones, along with information about relationships and work. 

Interview of child and parent(s), being sensitive to the emotional consequences of the enuresis... 

Stewart, S. and Pihl, R., Effects of alcohol administration on psychophysiological and subjective-emotional responses to aversive stimulation in anxiety sensitive women. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors 8(1), 29-42, 1994. 

Environmental arguments are highly emotive. There are many reasons why the public has become sensitive to environmental issues and, to a certain extent, suspicious of the attitudes of the chemical industry in this... 

This book is intended to give voice to the experiences of people from all walks of life who live with chemical sensitivities. Their narratives describe many of the social and emotional challenges faced... 

I m extremely sensitive to stress and other people s emotional energy. It s like I have radar. I think that s part of my problem. I was always sensitive as a child, but I didn t realize how sensitive. Right now it s a detriment because I turn it inward and can t turn it off. But it s a gift that I m trying to develop in a positive direction. 

When my son was two—he s nineteen now—I became sensitive to everything. I had excruciating headaches—almost continual—and sinus congestion, and really hit bottom emotionally. 

That whole period is still very fuzzy to me. It s hard to remember what happened before the explosion and what happened after. I had such pain in my head and such hopelessness, and that sinking feeling, that I didn t want to go on at one point. How much of my emotional state was related to the trauma at work and how much was part of the chemical sensitivity I don t think anybody s qualified to answer that. 

Some of the sociobiologists have written about adaptive modules of behavior. These modules, or algorithms, are unlikely to have evolved from scratch as free-standing stimulus-response homunculi or neural networks. Rather, they probably represent newly evolved perceptual, or cognitive, sensitivities that prompt pre-existing emotional reactions.6... 

Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) with Atypicai Features. The anhedonia of MDD is often manifested by social withdrawal. In contrast to social anxiety disorder, the social withdrawal of MDD is desired by the patient, at least during the major depressive episode, and does not persist when the episode remits. Atypical depression is characterized by another symptom reminiscent of social anxiety disorder—a longstanding pattern of sensitivity to interpersonal rejection. The interpersonal sensitivity associated with atypical depression is often characterized by stormy relationships and overly emotional responses to perceived slights. Such social lability is seldom observed in patients with social anxiety disorder. 

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