United Kingdom, June 29 -- Alanis Morrissette found life as a highly sensitive person (HSP) "lonely and painful".

The Ironic hitmaker has finally found she makes "more sense to people" after years of struggling to find ways to "regulate" the flood of emotions she feels as an empath.

She told Sunday Times Style magazine: "I tried myriad ways to regulate, whether that was partying or working. I was a huge work addict, still in recovery. A lot of love addiction, which also had some sex addiction. And I see this with empaths.

"We aren't given a handbook about how to be responsible for this temperament. All I know is that I made absolutely no sense to most people for a very long time and it was lonely and painful but I persevered.

"Now I f...