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Sentimental personality
Sentimental people are today qualified as hypersensitive people. For relationships to go well with hypersensitive people, it is important to know how to communicate with them.
What do we call a sentimental or hypersensitive person?
A so-called sentimental person has an excessive attachment to people, things, memories and everything related to love, tenderness. She attaches an inordinate importance to it and finds it difficult to dose and manage the feelings. He is a person who places a great deal of importance on feelings, sensitivity, inner and emotional life. The hypersensitive experiences things, sensations, and feelings more intensely than other people. He reacts more intensely to situations and takes things more to heart. The hypersensitive person is also more sensitive to criticism.
Sentimental or hypersensitive people are emotional and vulnerable.
They represent 15 to 20% of the population.
Hypersensitive people: positive aspects and negative aspects
Hypersensitive people have positive aspects which make social life easier and negative aspects which can make social relationships complicated.
Among the positive aspects, sentimental or hypersensitive people are receptive to others, compassionate, understanding, open, sensitive to the suffering of others.
On the other hand, sentimental or hypersensitive people tend to exaggerate, are vulnerable, defenseless, have a negative perception of others, one to react too strongly, are susceptible, irritable, sullen.
It can therefore be difficult to communicate with hypersensitive people.
How to communicate with a hypersensitive person?
Since these are sensitive people for whom everything is felt so intensely, be careful not to hurt their feelings.
Practice positive reinforcement with hypersensitive people and encourage them.
Pay attention to non-verbal language as they are sensitive to it. Avoid conflicts because hypersensitive people cannot stand them and tend to flee in the event of conflict.
Let them recover energy on their own after exposure to the world and noise.
Remember that they need both time and distance to make decisions. Don’t rush them!
Sentimental personalities: how can they communicate while protecting themselves?
There are various simple psychotherapeutic techniques that allow hypersensitive people to learn to communicate while protecting themselves.
Sophrology can also allow hypersensitive people to learn to manage their personal relationships more harmoniously and to respect each other in a world where listening to one’s feelings is still too often frowned upon.