Were you sensitive as a child?

Lounge
1

I read my report card from 1st grade. It said “Jon is a very sensitive little boy”.

I figure my birth probably triggered a certain sensitivity in me, plus my mom is very sensitive. Throughout the course of my illness I was very sensitive. But since getting on meds I am still sensitive but in different ways. I am sensitive as in tune with the senses and careful of others feelings. But not so much fragile any longer since meds. However altogether I think sensitivity and schizophrenia could have some correlation for sure.

2 Likes
2

I’m a sensitive adult.

4 Likes
3

I was sensitive as a boy. but became jaded and grew out of it as an adult. sometimes it’s work for me to be sensitive nowadays. I kind of got in the place where I felt like sensitivities were causing me all kinds of guilt over mis-statements and eventually got to the point where I could be like f you to anybody and it wouldn’t even phase me.

I felt like I was a good person just not sensitive and didn’t need the collective guilt that comes with communion.

2 Likes
5

Yes, i was very sensitive. Im quite sure there is a link to sz. In some ways i still am, in some not at all anymore. It is something i regret having lost.

I think it is the most obvious trait of people in our family line. My son is sensitive too. When he was 2.5 he said he didnt want to eat meat and fish because he didnt want to hurt the animals.

1 Like
6

All my life I’ve been overly sensitive. But, now that I’m properly medicated, I’m tough as nails.

2 Likes
7

Yes. I was a rather quiet and empathetic little fellow. I did talk a lot though!

3 Likes
8

Yes!! I had a lot of black-and-white thinking when I was younger and still do now.

2 Likes
9

I was sensitive as a child and am still sensitive as an adult.

2 Likes
10

That’s because Cancers(horoscope) are built that way .Me,also.With certain melancholic feel all the time.

1 Like
11

So true @anon70049667 1555

1 Like
12

I was the opposite of sensitive as a child, slowly i got more and more sensitive and am now very sensitive.

13

Yes I did too. I always asked a lot of questions. I was sensitive.

2 Likes
14

Think I was quite sensitive as a kid. Guess I’m still are but have gotten more sure of myself after becoming sz though. Or might be the years passing by.

15

My parents said to my sister that I became more shy and withdrawn around the age of 4. That may have been when it first registered with them rather when I started becoming shy and withdrawn.

I suppose I was quite sensitive. I’m quite sceptical of all these sites that seek to define the ‘highly sensitive person’ though.

1 Like
16

i was a sensitive child (still am)…but i see it as a gift as youre more in tune with peoples emotions

17

I’m overly sensitive. I have to try not to be hyper-responsible for all of everyone’s emotions all the time. It’s just not healthy.

18

I was very sensitive. I couldn’t stand even friendly teasing without getting upset

1 Like
19

What do you mean “black and white thinking”=sensitive??

My therapist says my friend is a very black and white thinker while I’m more adaptable. Her way of giving me a nice compliment.

But interestingly I hear this terminology a lot lately.

1 Like
20

One example of when I exhibited this kind of behavior was when I was 7-9 years old and my dad went outside to smoke a cigarette and I wanted to spend time with him. When I asked why he didn’t want to do anything with me in that moment, I thought that he decided to temporarily hate me.

1 Like
21

I was a sensitive child too.

My father and others say I am a very sensitive person.