Psychological Sensitivity to Pain:

"Common psychological / everyday terms

• Highly sensitive person (HSP)
  Widely used. Refers to people who process stimuli and emotions very deeply. Suffering—both their own and others’—hits harder and lasts longer.

• Hyper-empathic / extremely empathic
  When someone absorbs others’ pain almost without a filter.

• Emotionally vulnerable
  Describes the exposure to suffering, not the cause.

• Pain-sensitive / suffering-sensitive
  Not a formal term, but linguistically precise and often exactly what people mean.

Philosophical / existential language

• Melancholic
  Classic, non-pathological. A person who perceives depth, loss, and finitude very clearly.

• Tragic disposition
  Someone who experiences life primarily through suffering and meaning rather than pleasure.

• Existentially sensitive
  Attuned to suffering as a basic feature of existence.

Clinical-adjacent (only if appropriate)

• Depressive temperament
  Not a diagnosis, but a personality style.

• Affectively hyper-reactive
  Neutral, technical wording.

Plain truth, without sugarcoating

Many people who “seem to suffer all the time” are not weak or fragile. They are too open, too permeable, and never learned emotional boundaries. The constant suffering is often overexposure, not pathology."