Emotional Intensity is a trait that is often found in people who are highly sensitive, gifted, neurodivergent, or an empath. 

Emotional Intensity is experienced as feeling emotions deeply, from the highest highs to the lowest lows. 

Along with feeling deeply, the feelings of not being understood and accepted often accompany being emotionally intense. Those who are intense often experience loneliness as an outcast, an outsider, and the black sheep.

 It can also mean that small things can greatly impact your mood, and you may be more sensitive to criticism or rejection.

Many emotionally intense women also strongly desire connection and intimacy with others. This can lead to a deep need for relationships and a fear of being alone. At the same time, it can also be challenging to navigate relationships when emotions are so strong, as it can be hard to communicate effectively and avoid conflicts.

On one hand, being emotionally intense can make you more empathetic and connected to others, as you may be more attuned to their emotions. However, it can also make you more vulnerable to emotional pain and stress, as your emotions may be more easily triggered.

Emotional Intensity consists of five traits:

1. Emotional depth and passion
2. Highly perceptive
3. Creative potential and existential angst
4. Empath and sensitivity 
5. Rich inner world

1. Emotional depth and passion:

• As emotionally intense, you feel extreme and experience both positive and negative emotions at high Intensity.

• When you fall in love, you fall head over heels.

• You're deeply passionate, and it's raw, and it's real. You love fiercely, and your depth allows strong emotional attachments to those you care about.

•  You are wise beyond your years, yet at the same time, there is a child-like quality about you, an innocence. 

• Feeling intense and passionate is part of who you are, and you experience it regularly within, even if you don't display this outside or reveal this side of yourself to others. 

• Relationships are often difficult. You crave emotional depth, and finding someone receptive to your energy is difficult.

• Being so intense, when you do not honor your feelings or feel like you have been wronged in some way, you may experience episodes of acting out in rage and feeling out of control, which could develop into reactive patterns.

• Personalities with intuitive traits tend to be a little bolder in expressing ideas. When communicating deep, unconventional notions, it often involves strong emotions. 

• A desire for deep connection and intimate relationships. You'd prefer to have a few close friends you know inside and out rather than a hundred people you know just on a surface level.

2. Highly perceptive:

•  Being perceptive, you pick up the slightest details. This could include the nonverbal communication of others, such as body language, breathing patterns, facial expressions, voice tone, and even the silence and space between what is spoken.  

•  You hate hidden agendas mostly because it's completely antithetical to how you work and think. 

• You are driven to uncover deep truths and understand the mysteries in life that others often don't notice.

• You are a truth seeker; anything other than the truth won't fly. Dishonesty turns you off, and you seem to have a natural ability to discern the truth. 

•  As a deep thinker, you don't just stop at what only the eye can perceive; you penetrate deeper as you seek to understand the world around you and the creatures it inhabits. 

• Because you reflect on all the information you are constantly taking in, you can usually anticipate outcomes, almost as if you can predict the future. 

3. Creative potential and existential angst:

•  You are gifted at expressing yourself through creative self-expression mediums such as writing, speaking, art, or music. You are highly creative, even if you don't already know it.

• You are moved by emotional stimuli and resonate with beauty and art. If you are doing something you love, you can get completely lost in it. 

• Emotional Intensity makes you prone to going through a dark night of the soul, a spiritual and existential crisis. This also gives you the most development potential. 

• You are highly creative, and you feel most alive when you pursue your creative passions. 

• From a young age, you are curious and ponder life's "whys and what for" questions. You yearn for a deep understanding of others and the world around you. Being highly inquisitive, you seek to grasp things beyond others' desire for comprehension truly. 

4. Empathy and sensitivity: 

•  Not only do you feel emotions more deeply, but they're experienced within a broader range. You also absorb the emotions of others and psychic energies, making it so you get overwhelmed. You might identify with being labeled as an empath.

• Those who are emotionally intense also suffer from feelings of not being understood and the pain of loneliness that's deeply felt within. 

• You're not only sensitive, but you are deeply compassionate and empathetic. You have an overall loving nature and a desire to help others.  

• You have wounds around abandonment and rejection. 

• Your sensitivity helps you to connect and appreciate nature, animals, and the living world. 

• You are energetically sensitive and can sense the subtleties around you.

• Crowds or having a lot going on around you disturb you.

• You are naturally open and can easily take on other people's negative energies. Having thin boundaries makes it so that you can take on too much responsibility and are prone to blaming yourself. 

5. Rich inner world:

•  As highly imaginative, you can get lost in fantasy and daydreaming. You may have escaped to this world during childhood and still tend to do so as an adult. 

• You have a very active mind that never ceases to stop. You can be quite entertained by your thoughts, as you're highly intellectual; however, you tend to overthink.

•  As a deep thinker, you don't just stop at what only the eye can perceive; you penetrate deeper as you seek to understand the world around you and the creatures it inhabits. 

• You are spiritually inclined and even drawn to the spirit world. 

So what do you think? Does it sound like you?

 Are you emotionally intense? 

• Do you consider yourself an empath?
• Have you gone, or are you going through a spiritual awakening? Perhaps somethings is getting in the way for you to emerge as your true self. 
•  You may also have been diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD), borderline personality disorder (BPD), complex post-traumatic stress disorder (complex PTSD), and bipolar disorder.
•  Emotional Intensity is a form of neurodiversity, meaning your brain processes information differently, referring to the unique way your brain develops.
• You may be considered gifted or an empath. 

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1. Frida Kahlo - The Mexican painter is known for her vivid self-portraits that often depict her physical and emotional pain.
2. Vincent van Gogh - The Dutch painter is famous for his emotionally charged paintings, many of which were created during periods of extreme mental anguish.
3. Sylvia Plath - The American poet and novelist is known for her deeply personal and confessional writing that explores themes of depression, suicide, and mental illness.
4. Heath Ledger - The Australian actor was known for his intense and immersive approach to his roles, which often took a toll on his mental health.
5. Lady Gaga - The American singer and actress has spoken openly about her struggles with mental health, and is known for her emotionally charged performances and music.