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“You’re Too Sensitive”: Reclaiming Emotional Sensitivity from Self-Doubt
“You’re too sensitive.”
We hear it when our boundaries are crossed or power feels off. This article reframes sensitivity as a form of intelligence—your nervous system’s way of signaling imbalance, not proof of overreaction. By tracing how cultural and structural forces turn awareness into self-doubt, it calls for reclaiming sensitivity as integrity, agency, and resistance in a world that rewards numbness.

Dr. Jing Baer
5 min read
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