I am interested in learning more about emotional sensitivity. This particular survey is for people who are emotionally sensitive and do not have a mental health diagnosis. Thank you for your help. The questions are open ended and ask you to write out an answer. Please give as much information as you can.

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* 1. Do you consider yourself emotionally sensitive?

What does emotional sensitivity mean to you?
Have you always been an emotionally sensitive person?
How do you think your family environment reacted to your emotional sensitivity when you were growing up?
How do your family/friends react to your emotional sensitivity now?
When you struggled emotionally as a child, how did your family react?
Do you think your emotional sensitivity has caused problems for you?
How has emotional sensitivity been helpful to you?
Have you ever wanted to change your emotional sensitivity?
Have you ever been given a mental health diagnosis? If so, please describe.

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* 2. Have any of your closest relationships been troubled by a lot of arguments or break-ups?

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* 3. Have you deliberately hurt yourself physically, i.e. punched yourself, cut yourself burned yourself, or made a suicide attempt?

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* 4. Have you had at least two other problems with impulsivity (e.g. eating binges and spending sprees,
drinking too much, and verbal outbursts)?

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* 5. Have you been extremely moody?

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* 6. Have you felt very angry a lot of time?

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* 7. Have you often been distrustful of other people?

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* 8. Have you frequently felt unreal or as if things around you were unreal?

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* 9. Have you chronically felt empty?

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* 10. Have you often felt that you had no idea of who you are or that you have no identity?

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* 11. Have you made desperate efforts to avoid feeling abandoned or being abandoned (e.g., repeatedly called someone to reassure yourself that he or she still cared, begged them not to leave you, clung to them physically)?

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