Close to the Heart. How to Live If You Are a Highly Sensitive Person

Highly sensitive people or new introverts — this is how those who react more sharply to noise or bustle, quickly tire of society and love solitude are called. These people have a fine sensitivity to the world and pay attention to the smallest details, which is why they often make excellent poets, artists, and writers. However, living among others is difficult for them: they too often have to justify their fatigue and introversion, criticism wounds them too much, and they expend too much energy on empathy, as well as on conforming to societal standards.

Ilse Sand, author of several bestsellers and a Danish psychotherapist who has experienced all the hardships and joys of life as a highly sensitive person, explains how new introverts can finally stop trying to rebuild themselves and start living for their own pleasure in harmony with themselves and their feelings.