This is a term we use to refer to a type of people who do not need very salient stimuli to produce high intensity emotions in them. They are very reflective, highly empathetic people, who tend to get emotionally involved with everything around them because it is part of their essence. It is a personality style characterized by a series of traits. People with this syndrome are highly sensitive and this high sensitivity can generate, on many occasions, great suffering in the face of a variety of stimuli. However, not everything is negative. Highly sensitive people (HSP) have a high capacity to process everything they perceive in their environment, as if their senses were heightened.
In that sense, people with this syndrome process all information more deeply and pay special attention to the subtleties of the environment. In addition, they are more reflective than other people, and analyze everything that happens to them, both internally and externally. The reflection and inquiry they carry out is not always done consciously; this makes them people who take into account what their intuition tells them. They tend to have a greater facility for reflection and also for more introspective processes. When they process information, they select and compile the most interesting data and, in addition, they do it in a very deep way. The advantage of this is that they can detect details.
In addition, the subtleties of the environment that many other people miss (or overlook). On the downside, they are more often overwhelmed by an environment where over-stimulation reigns. Highly sensitive people must learn to take care of their self-esteem in order to enjoy their affective relationships, understanding in turn that the fact that their partner does not feel things with the same emotional intensity does not mean that they love them less. Affective relationships with highly sensitive people are complex. Their way of feeling reality is more intense, they are more empathic, they connect more deeply with the emotions of others, they suffer from contradictions.
In the same vein, since PAS people account for 20% of the population, it is normal that there are many affective relationships with non-PAS people, i.e. people who are not highly sensitive. Obviously there are many individual differences, there are highly sensitive people who have decided that it is better to be alone given the incompatibilities, given the suffering that this causes. Being a PAS person can be a virtue, a gift. However, it is in fact a personality trait that requires self-knowledge. Keep your self-esteem at a good level by enjoying who you are and how you are. It is possible that such sensitivity is sometimes synonymous with suffering, but this is not always the case.
In conclusion, emotional contagion is something that usually affects people who are very empathic. Surround yourself with positive people, this is a first step that can be very interesting, because if you absorb the emotions of others, these better be positive. The fact that you feel motivated, eager to undertake and start new activities is a great thing. In addition, choosing the people you want to surround yourself with will prevent that emotional back-and-forth that you can feel when you meet four positive and four negative people in one day. It is true that you will not always be able to run away from the latter, but if there are more of the former in your life, you will enjoy a better balance. I believe that understanding your emotions will allow you to put that distance that will help you avoid absorbing the emotions of others.
Do you feel that you absorb anything emotionally?
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