The Relationship Between Anxiety and Highly Sensitive People

There is some correlation there on average they score a little bit higher but there are definitely two distinct traits. Not all sensitive people have high level levels of anxiety nor do they necessarily have a higher rate of anxiety in general across sensitive people. The genes that well I should say one of the many many many genes involved in making someone highly sensitive uh is the cert gene which involves our serotonin reuptake it's the same gene that a lot of our anti-anxiety and anti-depression meds sort of target.

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