Quotes About Oversensitivity

I suspect] that in the drive toward the liberal universalist notion of human rights that characterized the last fifty or so years, there has been an accompanying oversensitivity that, in practice, keeps us atomized and more likely to be manipulated and have our rights impinged upon.

Often, those who bruise easily spend too much time thinking about themselves. I'd go so far as to say that oversensitivity is a privilege of the underoccupied. The majority of people don't have the time to lavish care on emotional wounds - they're too busy getting on with living.

There is substantial evidence that tic disorders have a genetic component. They may be caused by an oversensitivity to the neurotransmitter dopamine, which controls movement, and they may originate in the basal ganglia, the part of the brain that controls behaviors.

Poor me. No one understands me. They don't love me. My family is the cause of my misery. I can't believe he gave that job to her, not to me." Victims may want to be rescued, but they don't want to be reminded of their inadequacies. Not taking responsibility for their actions is the hallmark of Victim behavior. Another defining characteristic is oversensitivity and clinging to their glass-half-empty perspective of life.