Aron and many other researchers interviewed in the documentary have found through magnetic imaging and neurological and physiological testing, the highly sensitive do in fact physically process the world differently. Because of their higher than average depth of processing Dr. Aron says, "Labels of fearfulness and shyness are applied to sensitive people even when they don't apply.
Because of this above-average depth of processing, the highly sensitive person is easily overstimulated -- aka overwhelmed -- by events going on around them, and especially chaotic, loud, or crowded situations. The highly sensitive require a great deal of downtime in order to decompress after overstimulation. Bianca Acevedo and many others have performed studies on the brains of highly sensitive individuals which showed that empathy and emotional responsiveness are heightened.
The highly sensitive show more brain activity in the insula -- also known as the brain's seat of consciousness, which helps integrate an individual's inner and outer experiences into usable data for survival.
The highly sensitive are easier to cry than others because they are emotionally tending to everything around them in a deeper way, which is not a bad thing. Dr Aron notes, "Emotions generally lead to better thinking, because we only think thoroughly about something we care about. The highly sensitive are extremely sensitive to subtleties and subtle shifts in the environment from moment to moment.
The positive benefit of a sensitivity to these subtle shifts is great creativity. The highly sensitive are able to combine a lifetime of this so-called deep processing into unique insights about the world around them, as noted by Dr.
Jadzia Jagielowitz, yet another researcher on the highly sensitive. Sensitive: The Untold Story features a number of insightful interviews with a variety of researchers in the United States and Europe who are in the midst of new studies on the trait, such as Dr.
Michael Pluess, whose research on "differential susceptibility" and "environmental susceptibility" has particular resonance for highly sensitive individuals. Both differential and environmental susceptibility demonstrate how some individuals are more affected by positive and negative stimuli and environments than others. In the case of a highly sensitive person, they respond particularly strongly and beneficially to positive experiences to a greater degree than the non-highly sensitive.
However, the reverse is also true: highly sensitive individuals who had "adverse childhoods" will undoubtedly experience that negativity more strongly and it has a far greater potential to ripple out into adulthood as depression, anxiety, addiction, and more as noted by Dr.
Tracy Cooper, Dr. Pluess, and Dr. Aron and many other researchers' work have found that a majority of highly sensitive individuals suffered from these adverse childhoods -- often times because their trait of high sensitivity was misunderstood by family and others -- which often left them ill-equipped to deal with their trait in a functional way.
This is why research on high sensitivity is so important at this juncture: so that a new generation of the highly sensitive can be understood and nurtured to become particularly highly functional adults who are able to manage what some now consider the gift of high sensitivity.
Tom Boyce, a child development researcher, notes on the highly sensitive child: "They are going to thrive and flourish if you care for them well.
But they are going to suffer and go down if you care for them poorly. So you are much more of the conductor of the orchestra in those cases than in other cases. However, where the documentary gets into trouble is in some of its narrative features, and this might undermine the important strides the film makes in legitimizing awareness of the trait of high sensitivity. For example, there are several poorly written and awkwardly acted reenactments of typical scenes a highly sensitive individual might go through, but because of the forced performances and stilted writing these end up detracting and distracting from the solid science behind the highly sensitive personality.
Also, as a highly sensitive woman of color myself, I found it troubling that only two highly sensitive people of color were interviewed. For social and cultural researchers, it is highly problematic to give an impression that this is a "white" trait when it is not. And while there is an international component to the research on high sensitivity, the chosen interviewees once again reflected only a white eurocentric perspective.
Seeing that the director of the film, Will Harper, is himself a person of color and identifies as highly sensitive, it's surprising there isn't more diverse ethnic and racial representation in the film. There is also a level of cultural erasure and false universality that occurs in montages of unspecified African and Southeast Asian children who appear with no explanation as to their presence in the documentary, nor any further identifying information as to the specificity of from where these children are from or why they are being shown.
Because high sensitivity is such a misunderstood trait and so many highly sensitive people survive adverse childhoods because of being considered different, crazy, or with some pathological fundamental flaw, it's unfortunate that there are these narrative problems in the first documentary ever made about highly sensitive individuals.
In the cases of the reenactments and the footage montages these narrative tricks were wholly unnecessary to the documentary's focus and could have been edited out without affecting the concrete scientific evidence. Being a pragmatic and skeptical sensitive person myself, I'm not overlooking these narrative blunders in Sensitive: The Untold Story , but I am choosing to focus on the concrete science and research that paint a fascinating perspective on the highly sensitive personality and what makes the highly sensitive different from others.
In an interview in the film highly sensitive person Alanis Morrissette says, "I spent most of my life thinking that how I was was a problem for people.
And Dr. Aron, herself a highly sensitive person, reveals, "I think I went into clinical psychology because I didn't know what was the matter with me. Sensitive: The Untold Story begins a long and new process of advocacy and awareness that will especially benefit highly sensitive children, so that when a highly sensitive child shows up in a family everyone can know better how to nurture the trait instead of eliminate or vilify it. Gary Linker. Robert W. Madisyn Taylor Self as Self.
Jadzia Jagiellowicz Self - PhD. Will Harper. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. A groundbreaking documentary about the innate trait of high sensitivity found in 1 in 5 people and in over other species. Featuring Alanis Morissette and author-psychologist Dr.
Add content advisory. User reviews 7 Review. Top review. Great topic but average execution - still okay-ish informative. Thanks for creating this documentary! I came across this while doing research and although I was delighted to hear some of the researchers speak on screen I was excited to see one Ph.
I mean yes, it is a documentary and needs to inform, but I can't get rid of the feeling that there was used an awfully lot of stock footage. I am, personally, a HSP and still try to figure out my detailed trait-set together with introversion and attachment style to understand myself better.
I somehow wished as well to have heard more research in this film about all that stuff, like how introversion connects with for example fearful-avoidant or dismissive-avoidant attachment styles WITH HSPs, but then again - this is a too specialized topic, I guess. I am happy they spoke about parenting as well and the workplace, which is a huge deal for many HSPs, I think. So I have mercy with it as well and say: good job folks!
Thanks for producing this! Details Edit. Release date September 10, United States. United States. Official site Watch Sensitive on Fearless. The Global Touch Group. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 1 hour 3 minutes.
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