Intensities can be characterized by: • Extreme feelings: positive or negative feelings; complex emotions; connection with the feelings of others; grand laughter and tears • Physical reaction to emotion: stomachaches and headaches; blushing;
rise in body temperature • Strong affective memory: re-living or re-feeling things long after the triggering event; nightmares; elaborate daydreams connected to actual events • There are five areas of overexcitabilities: psychomotor, sensual, imaginational, intellectual, and
emotional.