Sensitive: The Untold Story (2015) User Reviews

End of the beginning

[scstruever · 8/10 · 24 January 2016]

I like this documentary and I think it's a good step forward to getting to know HSP as a trait and learning how to live and prosper with it - for both HSP and non-HSPs.

This film touches many different aspects like family and work. It is only a superficial but important and well made documentary.

There are scientific views and also very personal views on the HSP trait from many different people around the world. If you think about the fact, that this film is a very low budget film sponsored via kickstarter one has to value the outcome.

I also like the fact that there are many different aspects to HSP and there's no one-size-fits-all. Also it is not overly emotional and spiritual stuff so there something in this film for everyone.

The HSP Rollercoaster - my 2 cents

[fierro-2001 · 6/10 · 29 August 2022]

As men, think about all those things (good and bad) that drive you crazy about women. Now, if you want to know what is like having an HSP girlfriend, imagine amplifying all those traits x10.

I've been 15 years with an HSP woman. I had the best and the worst moments in my life, every week was an emotional rollercoaster full of drama, circle discussions, reconciliations, reproaches, love and (unfortunately) hate. It was utterly exhausting and in the end, so emotionally taxing that made me unhappy and unable to enjoy a quiet and simple life.

She told me she was HSP but I never understood what that really meant until it was too late and I was totally addicted to her. She is a wonderful yet an impossible person to live with. Of course HSP supports groups always tell how amazing and wonderful is to have such deep feelings, but tbh, I don't think it's how the human are meant to be made. They are just too vulnerable to everything, and the scars they get from life are so deep, they never forget nor fully forgive, NEVER.

Just keep in mind and take this advice seriously. With an HSP person you will be signing for the greatest emotional rollercoaster of your life. It will be a very demanding relationship, and will probably leave the best & worst emotional scars of your personal life.

Excellent Documentary

[spiffygirl-97683 · 10/10 · 13 April 2019]

This was an insightful explanation of why those who are highly sensitive may feel and act differently. It was very helpful. I hope to see more documentaries on this subject from these producers.

Oh, I wish this came out when I was younger

[LilMer8 · 10/10 · 24 December 2021]

I am not a person that cries that easy, but I sobbed watching this. I finally felt I had an answer for who I am and why I am the way I am. What a gift.

Noble Project - Bad Execution

[suznstorm · 2/10 · 5 January 2016]

I donated to help fund this film and am happy it was produced. I am an HSP and wanted our story told. The reason for my low rating is because 1) the film is highly repetitious and the same scenes appear over and over and over and to me that's extremely annoying as I get it the first time and 2) they put text over the names and titles of those on screen and while I appreciate them doing the text for the hearing impaired I want to see who the people on screen are. I watched the first two discs and half of the second but doubt I'll watch the rest of the movie because of the above. That's just my view of things and others may see it differently.

Changed my life

[jrawnw · 10/10 · 4 July 2022]

I am an Athletic Male that grew up in a very unsensitive environment. One where I was forced to be "tough" and not show feelings. My entire life I thought something was wrong with me because I was always so much more emotional than everyone else. My happiness was over the top and different and my pain was always so much deeper. I was always told to "calm down and grow up" or "get over it you wimp".

My entire life I had been searching inside of me to find the answer to this "trauma" I must have suffered to make me this way. When I saw the title of this documentry I wrote it off because "I'm not sensitive, I'm a tough guy".

I'm forever grateful I watched this. It changed everything for me and gave me confidence and understanding about my feelings that I never had. I wish someone would have told me this 30 years ago. I had always knew that I possessed something different than others but I had been made to feel ashamed of it. Now I realize what a gift it is and I pledge the rest of my life to learning to embrace it and teach other to do the same.

Photosensitive folks beware!!!

[jegan-09303 · 1/10 · 6 January 2021]

Was very excited for this but the idiots who produced this are clearly NOT highly sensitive! The weird sounds and lights were an issue and I needed to shut it off! There should also be a warning on this for photosensitive viewers!!!! Its hard enough for HSPs without stupid production effects. Get rid of the annoying sound overlays and flashing lights wtf were you thinking guys???? You want to inform people not trigger them!!

A Young HSP turned Alcoholic

[stacymariebranch · 10/10 · 16 April 2021]

My mother catered to my above average smarts and sensitivity. She was an angel! Once I went to Kindergarten in 1983 none of the other kids understood why I was having all of us sit down to try to figure out our differences. It was easier for them to gossip and argue. It turned me into a bully so I wouldn't be bullied. In adulthood, when others wouldn't listen to reason, which was so apparent to me, but outlandish to them, I started to feel insecure. I was one of the first white women to have a baby with a black man in my community, I felt like if was my duty to prove to everyone who was hating other human beings wrong and it gave me a leadership role that I thought would regain my self worth. The children, elders, bosses loved me but none of my peers did. It was very isolating, but yet again, allowed me to survive. Alcohol helped me feel normal. I am paying the price for that now. Is there another video that discusses my reality, or should we make one?

You you you oughta know that this doc is ironic

[lehmans-38267 · 10/10 · 24 March 2021]

Don'tcha think? HSP documentary review. It's ok however 20% of the population has this trait and I have one hand in my pocket and the other one is wiping my tears from over stimulation. High percent.

Great topic but average execution - still okay-ish informative. Thanks for creating this documentary!

[thedarkhorizon · 5/10 · 19 January 2021]

I think that this documentary is (hopefully) more for the NON-HSP than HSPs, although the documentary sounded a lot of times like "You can do better, we support you HSP."... and somehow I wished that this documentary was more for the ones who do not know what HSP is actually. I came across this while doing research and although I was delighted to hear some of the researchers speak on screen (I was excited to see one Ph.D. from Bamberg where I actually grew up!), but seriously: the repetitive imagery, the weird cinematography (at times), the weird sound overlays and the overall not tooooo appealing visuals were not very amusing to watch. I mean yes, it is a documentary and needs to inform, but I can't get rid of the feeling that there was used an awfully lot of stock footage. (and bad actors... sorry guys :( ).

But enough of the bad talking, I liked the structure of the narration / information and hope that this film will help a few people out there either to explain HSPs to non-HSPs or can reflect on HSP while being one themselves.

I am, personally, a HSP and still try to figure out my detailed trait-set together with introversion and attachment style to understand myself better. I somehow wished as well to have heard more research in this film about all that stuff, like how introversion connects with for example fearful-avoidant or dismissive-avoidant attachment styles WITH HSPs, but then again - this is a too specialized topic, I guess. I am happy they spoke about parenting as well and the workplace, which is a huge deal for many HSPs, I think. (I got around this by having a HSP mother and learning early in my life to follow my needs and for example work from home early on)

So: nice documentary but not the blockbuster you might expect due to advertising/visuals/trailer. But like the film said: HAVE MERCY. So I have mercy with it as well and say: good job folks! Thanks for producing this!

Good subject but bad technical production.

[bloated95 · 5/10 · 21 January 2022]

Really good subject to approach, since it's been not that much written about it, and shown in film until now. I'd definitely would like to see more of this.

However, I'd like to see a more proper technical production not involving different aspect ratios, different loudness and audio levels and unbalanced frequencies, lots of effects and transitions disturbing the story that's about sensivity after all. At least the bokeh's look good.