Megan’s Reviews > The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You > Status Update

"One can see how a few bad experiences when approaching new things could turn the pause-to-check system into a pause-and-do-nothing system, a true inhibition system. The best way to avoid bad things would seem to be avoiding everything. And, of course, the more the world is avoided, the newer everything will seem."