
09/23/2025
“I personally believe that a good chunk of people who are diagnosed with anxiety, depression, and/or find themselves deep in addiction are, in fact, highly sensitive people.
Feeling everything deeply (both physically and emotionally) is intense. It’s overwhelming. Why wouldn’t you want to numb yourself when you’re feeling the weight of the world every day?
I also believe that those who are highly sensitive are acutely tapped in (whether they realize it or not) to the unseen. Tapped into the fact that we are much more than mere animals with highly developed brains. Highly sensitive people feel and know deeply that there is a vastness of energy and mystery to this universe that is incomprehensible.
When highly sensitive people are tapped into the ineffable magic of this realm and beyond, but then have to spend time cleaning fur balls out of dryer vents or clipping coupons for $0.99 off the latest oat milk… the gap between the two worlds can be a little bit hard to swallow. Cue the drugs.
Anyway, this week, during eclipse season, in highly sensitive fashion — I was feeling particularly overwhelmed…”
The above is a small snippet of a longer piece of writing all about grief, sensitivity, addiction, the intensity of this eclipse, and the wild ride of having an entire Italian-American family in your head.
You’ll see what I mean when you read —
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