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Are You 'Too Sensitive' for The Age of Angst?

Are You 'Too Sensitive' for The Age of Angst?

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Elif Shafak
Oct 21, 2023
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Are You 'Too Sensitive' for The Age of Angst?
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Have you ever been told that you are ‘too sensitive?”

I must have heard this statement maybe a thousand times. Ever since my childhood. Each time it made me doubt myself. It left me feeling awkward inside. I didn’t like being told that I was ‘too sensitive’ but maybe I was over-reacting, over-thinking, over-feeling— again. By getting upset at this innoce…

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