How to Stop Being Over-Sensitive

I have been able to get over physically as well as mentally my oversensitivity to others' words and actions through therapy and by asking myself what's the worst that could happen if what I believed to be was true was in fact true. If someone declined my offer to come to tea because they really didn't like me...so what, what then? Is that such a bad thing, is the world going to stop turning because one person doesn't like me? Nope.

If someone doesn't respond to my emails, what's the worst thing that could happen? Not much. Doing that has really helped me to see that I not only am I over sensitive to other people but that I also have a dramatic response to what other people say or do towards me. and I had to ask myself, why I would take it so hard if someone ignored me or disliked me or whatever. It was because I didn't have a good sense of my own identity nor a good self-esteem. Developing both made a powerful increase in my life; I became happier and felt capable of handling minor problems that everyone goes through. My circumstances didn't change, just my attitude. I began to realize that happiness was not some external feeling handed to me by my environment, but a feeling that I could cultivate inside. And the stronger I cultivated this feeling, the more capable I felt at being able to change or leave situations that were not what I wanted or best for me at the time.

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