Juan Moisés De La Serna - High Sensitivity And Mental Health

Mental Health

and

High Sensitivity

Manuela Pérez Chacón

Antonio Chacón

Juan Moisés de la Serna

Editorial Tektime

2021

“Mental Health and High Sensitivity”

Written by Manuela Pérez Chacón, Antonio Chacón and Juan Moisés de la Serna

1st Edition: december 2021

© Juan Moisés de la Serna, 2021

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About the authors:

Manuela Pérez Chacón

Degree in Psychology, Ph.D. student in the inter-university program on Psychology of Human Resources at the University of Seville and the University of Valencia. Specialist in Clinical Psychology. Specialist in Industrial Psychology. University Specialist in Special Education: Therapeutic Pedagogy. Professional Expert in “Psychological disorders in children and adolescents.” Master in Occupational Risk Prevention, specializing in Safety, Hygiene, Ergonomics, and Psychosociology.

Master of Psychology with over 10 years of experience in the areas of health and psychosocial risk prevention. Specialized in clinical therapy and occupational psychology. Expert in Children and Adolescent Mental Disorders. Member-founder of the Child-Youth Mental Health Unit of the Hospital Jerez Puerta del Sur (USMIJ-Clínica Jerez). Gold Medal to Professional Merit by the General Council of Industrial Relations and Labor Sciences, PREVER 2018 Awards, for her research in the field of Psychosocial Risks in the Workplace. Member of the Official College of Psychologists of Western Andalusia number AN-06014.

President of the Spanish Association of High Sensitivity Professionals (HSP Spain). Psychologist Specializing in HSP (Highly Sensitive Persons) and referring physician in Spain as an expert in High Sensitivity. Public speaker specializing in Child Psychology and Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) in Children. First Spanish woman certified as a psychologist specializing in High Sensitivity (Acknowledged Professional by Elaine Aron). Has been interviewed several times in well-known media channels such as Cadena SER, La1 de RTVE, or El Pais.

Antonio Chacón

Expert in psychosocial risk management with 15 years of experience in External Prevention Services (EPS). Ph.D. Student in the Psychology of Human Resources program at the University of Seville. Assistant professor at the International University of La Rioja of the Masters in Occupational Risk Prevention and Masters in Systems Integration. (International University of La Rioja – UNIR).

Founder of the Association of Psychologists and High Sensitivity Professionals (HSP Spain). Awarded a Cruz de Honor (Cross of Honor) for health and Safety in the Workplace and awarded a Gold Medal of Professional Prestige by Forum Europe. Disseminator on the subject of High Sensitivity Trait in Organizations.

Juan Moisés de la Serna

Ph.D. of Psychology and Master in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology, University Professor. To date, his research focuses on the potential factors influencing COVID -19 and on the short and long-term psychological and neurological complications after SARS CoV-2 infection in humans.

The most-read author in Spain in 2020 according to researchgate.net.

Scientific disseminator with more than 30 books published on Psychology and Neuroscience, including topics such as ADD, PDD, ASD, ADHD, EQ, MSD, High Capacity.

Prologue

The interest generated by our first book on High Sensitivity encouraged us to continue disseminating insight on this personality trait. This second book focuses more on the difficulties experienced by highly sensitive people as well as on the psychological abilities they possess. Knowing how to manage the trait of High Sensitivity is fundamental to achieving a maximum potential in the personal growth of the Highly Sensitive Person (HSP). Hence the importance of knowing how to meet the needs of highly sensitive children (HSC) from an early age. HSC children become HSP adults. Solve the issue in childhood and you avoid the need for treatments later on.

Throughout life, the HSP can go through transient psychological problems or disorders derived from mismanagement of their trait. In these pages, we share real examples of people who have come to a psychology consultation looking for a solution to their “bumps in the road”. Many HSPs discover it in the wake of one of these ups and downs in their lives. Knowing how to take the right path, choosing to have people close to them who respect the HSP trait, and learning to set limits, are the objectives most demanded by the HSPs who are treated by a mental health professional.

This book aims to help both the reader, as well as the health or medical professional. Based on our experience as professional experts of High Sensitivity we are offering solutions to the problems that arise from being an HSP, sharing examples of people who have gone through the same stages, as well as showing some of the most common disorders derived from having this particular personality trait. Although being an HSP or HSC is not a disorder, it is necessary to learn to adapt to today’s society until society becomes better acquainted with High Sensitivity.

Manuela Pérez

www.HSPespana.org

Index

Chapter 1. Introduction to the study of the relationship between High Sensitivity and Mental Health

Chapter 2. Characteristics of the Highly Sensitive Person

Chapter 3. The brain and High Sensitivity

Chapter 4. Non-sensitive and Sensitive Patients

Chapter 5. Education. High Capacity and High Sensitivity

Chapter 6. Differentiating Characteristics of Highly Sensitive People

6.1. Is High Sensitivity a disorder?

6.2. Autism and High Sensitivity

6.3. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and High Sensitivity

Chapter 7. Effects of High Sensitivity

7.1. Fear of failure of the highly sensitive person

7.2. Pathological self-criticism of the highly sensitive person

7.3. Depression vs. High Sensitivity

Chapter 8. Highly Sensitive Patients

8.1 What concerns High Sensitivity professionals

8.2. Why HSCs are mistaken as having other disorders

8.3. When being an HSC becomes a problem.

8.4. When being an HSC becomes an advantage.

8.5. What I can do when teaching HSC?

8.6. When should I seek help for my HSC?

8.7. What can I do as a parent of an HSC?

8.8. What do statistics say about HSC, regarding culture, gender, and genetics.

Chapter 9. Problems derived from high sensitivity.

9.1. How to act in social situations if you are an HSP

9.2. Mindfulness to help highly sensitive people

9.3. Troubleshooting as therapy for highly sensitive people

9.4 Systemic family therapy applied to families with HSP members

Whether you are a highly sensitive person or a mental health professional, you will benefit from reading this book. You may be a person who has discovered your highly sensitive trait as a result of not feeling too good about yourself. Or maybe you have spent years going to psychologists and psychiatrists, or have been looking for information until someone enlightened you with knowledge of the existence of Highly Sensitive People (HSP). You may be a professional who has cared for people you could not quite manage to understand, people who did not exactly have a disorder but there was something that prevented them from growing and continuing their journey in life with ease. Perhaps, your case is that of an individual who is having a hard time communicating with your partner because it seems that you are each speaking a different language since each one feels and perceives the world differently. You may have even left a job due to feeling like you did not fit in, whether with others or with repetitive and routine tasks.