{"id":12,"date":"2016-10-04T02:09:11","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T02:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/?p=7"},"modified":"2016-10-04T02:09:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T02:09:11","slug":"a-little-about-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/index.php\/2016\/10\/04\/a-little-about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/love-warrior.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-11 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/love-warrior-300x300.png?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"I still get very high and very low in life. Daily. But I've finally accepted the fact that sensitive is just how I was made, that I don't have to hide it and I don't have to fix it. I'm not broken.\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am officially a middle-aged woman, Colorado born\u00a0and raised, who has reached a point in my life that I don&#8217;t care much what people think of me &#8212; until my anxiety takes hold and then I do. \u00a0I&#8217;ve struggled with chronic depression (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/diseases-conditions\/persistent-depressive-disorder\/home\/ovc-20166590\">dysthymia<\/a>) and anxiety for most of my life although I didn&#8217;t have a name for it until life forced me to address my mental state a few years back. \u00a0I&#8217;ve learned to manage it, most of the time anyway. \u00a0I&#8217;m also <em><strong>STRONG<\/strong><strong>LY<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0introverted and a <a href=\"http:\/\/hsperson.com\/\">Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)<\/a>. \u00a0While I try to focus on the positive, it&#8217;s hard not to see these traits as both a blessing and a curse. \u00a0While my sensitivity allows me to see, hear, and feel the beauty in subtle things, I&#8217;m also easily overwhelmed by the ever-increasing and chaotic stimuli in our world. \u00a0Due to these stresses and other choices I&#8217;ve made in my life, I developed fibromyalgia (chronic pain) &#8211; a lesson in how important it is to take care of one&#8217;s self. \u00a0I love the fact that my empathetic and detail-oriented nature allows me almost instinctively to know how to help others but sometimes I go overboard, offering help where it might not be wanted. \u00a0Worse yet, I feel pulled to help others that might take advantage or not warrant my concern. \u00a0Most of the time, I love people and want to see the best in humanity, but I all too often find myself devastated and heartbroken by the pain and suffering people cause each other and our natural world. \u00a0I yearn to withdraw into myself\u00a0and ignore the world. \u00a0Hence, my moniker, the soft-hearted misanthrope.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am officially a middle-aged woman, Colorado born\u00a0and raised, who has reached a point in my life that I don&#8217;t care much what people think of me &#8212; until my anxiety takes hold and then I do. \u00a0I&#8217;ve struggled with chronic depression (dysthymia) and anxiety for most of my life although I didn&#8217;t have a name for it until life forced me to address my mental state a few years back. \u00a0I&#8217;ve learned to manage it, most of the time anyway. \u00a0I&#8217;m also STRONGLY\u00a0introverted and a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP). \u00a0While I try to focus on the positive, it&#8217;s hard&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[12,9,10,11,16,14,15,13],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellania","tag-anxiety","tag-colorado","tag-depression","tag-dysthymia","tag-fibromyalgia","tag-hsp","tag-introvert","tag-sensitive"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/softheartedmisanthrope.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}