Henri Nouwen

One of the most beautiful ways for spiritual formation to take place is to let your insecurity lead you closer to the Lord. Natural hypersensitivity can become an asset; it makes you aware of your need to be with people and it allows you to be more willing to look at their needs.

Dutch Clergyman

Baruj Benacerraf

My interest was directed, from my medical student days, to Immunology, and particularly to the mechanism of hypersensitivity. I had suffered from bronchial asthma as a child and had developed a deep curiosity in allergic phenomena.

Venezuelan Scientist

Paddy Considine

I live in a state of hypersensitivity, and I've always had this feeling that something bad is going to happen to myself, or my wife and children. This manifests itself in different fears and visions.

English Actor

Bob Odenkirk

I'm hypersensitive to negativity and duplicity, and I want to push it away by writing comedy. Maybe that hypersensitivity comes across and allows me to play dastardly, multi-layered people.

American Actor

Cornel West

Black prophetic fire is the hypersensitivity to the suffering of others that generates a righteous indignation that results in the willingness to live and die for freedom.

American Educator

Richard Dawkins

I'm quite a softy, yes. I have a blank spot with respect to visual art, but I have perhaps a compensating hypersensitivity to poetry and music.

English Scientist

Lionel Shriver

American Journalist

Used in health contexts to describe unusually strong physical reactions to substances or stimuli.

Medical Precision

Helps pinpoint specific substances or conditions that provoke a severe response.

Identifying Triggers

While often linked to allergies, it can refer to non-allergic responses as well.

Not Always Allergies

Highlights a person's tendency to react with heightened emotional intensity.

Emotional Reactivity

Emphasizes how personal feelings and perceptions heavily influence one's reaction.

Subjective Experience

Point out that being hypersensitive can lead to deep empathy and understanding of others.

Not Always Negative

 is completely, completely over the top. And in this state of hypersensitivity, our brains signal deep dissatisfaction. We become restless, irritable and impulsive.

Hypersensitivity