How sensitive are you?

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How Sensitive Are You? Take the Quiz!

Discover your sensitivity levels with our engaging quiz designed to analyze your reactions to pain, discomfort, and emotional situations. Answer a series of thought-provoking questions to find out how in tune you are with your emotions and those of others.

Understand your sensitivity to physical pain.
Gauge your emotional responses in various situations.
Learn more about how empathy affects interpersonal relationships.

9 Questions2 MinutesCreated by CaringHeart92

How quickly do you notice changes in your body?

Immediately

Only when they grow into aches or pains

Very slowly

You start to have a bad headache during the day. What do you do?

Lie down and rest

Ignore it until it gets too bad

Fight it and carry on with what you are doing

Your back is hurting. What do you do?

Make 'ooh' noises until somebody asks you what's wrong

Tell other people about it so they understand

Keep quiet about it and suffer in silence

You fall in the street and hurt your knee. What do you do?

Make it just a bit more dramatic than it really is

Laugh out loud and make it into a joke

Pretend that it didn't hurt much

Someone who is in pain shouts at you and insults you when you are trying to help them. What do you do?

Understand, feel nothing, and stay calm

Tell them to either stop shouting or deal with it themselves

Get angry - shout back and walk out

There is a documentary about victims of war on TV that shows horrible violence. How do you react?

By switching the TV off

You feel upset but you watch it through to the end

With cool interest

You hear that an old school friend has had a leg amputated. Then one day you see them in the street. What do you do?

Get emotional and start crying

Walk up to him and give him a big hug

Talk to him but avoid the subject of the leg

Which do you think is the most common problem with patients' reports of pain?

They often keep quiet and don't report it

They understate it - it's usually worse than they say )

They exaggerate it - it's usually not as bad as they say

A child falls over and gets a small cut. How do you react?

Give immediate comfort - hold the child and sympathize

Give attention, but only to the cut

Tell the child to be brave and not cry

How sensitive are you?

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