The Sensitive Person's Survival Guide: An Alternative Health Answer to Emotional Sensitivity & Depression

by Kyra Mesich

The Sensitive Person s Survival Guide presents a radically new way of looking at emotional sensitivity, chronic depression and anxiety. Through her own experiences and courageous research, Dr. Kyra Mesich, a traditionally-trained psychologist, found that psychic sensitivity is the underlying key to understanding emotional sensitivity.


Dr. Mesich focuses on empathic ability (also known as psychic feeling) which is the ability to literally feel other people's emotional experiences. This misunderstood ability often results in recurrent depression, anxiety and the painful aspects of emotional sensitivity due in part to society's denial and repression of the existence of psychic phenomena.


With simple, down-to-earth language and examples, The Sensitive Person's Survival Guide demystifies empathic ability and explains the relationship between emotional sensitivity and psychic sensitivity.


Readers learn specific alternative health remedies and practices to immediately implement in their own lives to rebalance their sensitivity and reconnect with their empathic ability. Armed with this knowledge, readers will experience relief from mysterious lifelong emotional suffering, and turn their sensitivity into a strength and a joy!

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help, Psychology, Mental Health

111 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

Reviews

[lili · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book presented its ideas very simply and succinctly but still managed to discuss topics missed by Elaine Aron. The meditations offered and understanding of how to recenter and rebalance oneself seem easy enough for most people to follow, even without much meditation experience. I like most of all how sensitivity was shown to be a possible cause to some depressions, in a grounded manner (and not forced to parse out the "science" of it. It just makes intuitive sense). I had been told previously that I'm an "empath" or very sensitive to others, but I never felt that way. Framed this way, as experiencing others' feelings out of the blue, not particularly in conversation or in one's presence, I understood the concept much better. Then as discussed as a facet of intuition, empathy sensitivity seems like something I'm familiar with. I have a low tolerance for being around anyone I feel is bad-intentioned. I tend to get very drained and sometimes my mood drops suddenly around people, especially large groups of people. This has always been unexplained and almost unnoticed by me, but it causes a lot of obstacles in life. I am grateful to come across this book.

[Kami · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic book, easily digestible and one that I read in a single setting, my first in a long while.

Mesich provides intellectual insight that somehow solidifies the turmoil of sensitivity and empathy into a tangible and increasingly valid experience. She was years ahead of her time. I feel incredibly lucky to have found this at a little free library.

[Kim · Rating 2 out of 5]

A quick, easy read. Had some useful info about flower essences I'd not heard of before.

[Jo · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Common thought dictates that emotionally sensitive people are weak, emotionally fragile and doomed to suffer from psychological symptoms and emotional overwhelm. These ideas are wrong." I'm happy someone finally wrote about this. I feel like it could use more chapters though. Part of it reads a little bit too much like an advertisement. Overall a great resource though. I'd like to see more people in the psychology and medical professions read this.

[Shannon]

I haven't read it yet, but I read a "sample" and I'm really quite horrified by her using the word "drug" as past tense for "drag." Isn't she a psychologist???? I'm so horrified, I'm not sure I can listen to what she has to say. Really? I'm sorry, but "drug" is not acceptable used in that way. ever. I can't believe she got a degree and this was published.

[Lblomstrom · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was very imformative and helped me better understand myself.

[Stella · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting.