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Hello everybody, and welcome back to the psychology of your 20s.
The podcast where we talk through some of the big life changes and transitions of our 20s, and what they mean for our psychology.
Hello everybody, welcome back to the show, welcome back to the podcast, new listeners, old listeners, wherever you are in the world.
It is so great to have you here.
Back for another episode as we of course, break down the psychology of your 20s.
Have you ever been told that you're too sensitive?
Or that you just shouldn't think so much.
You're overreacting to something so small.
You let the world hurt you, or my all-time favorite.
You just take everything so personally.
If you are a highly sensitive person, these statements are definitely something that you've probably encountered and are most likely sick of hearing.
Being a highly sensitive person is so much more than what people think it is.
There is such a limited idea that if you're sensitive, you must cry all the time, you have a react, you take things too seriously, that you make it difficult for others.
Sensitivity is often synonymous with fragility, being easy to break, and feeling like people need to walk on egg shows around you.
And these misconceptions treat our sensitivity like a character floor.
When in fact being a deeply sensitive, gentle feeling person simply means that you have a profound and rich, inner emotional life that causes you to feel, perceive the world differently, and with more colour and complexity.
Everything is just heightened, the beautiful things about the world are magnified, but so is a lot of the pain and the stress and the sadness.
Sometimes that can be overwhelming, but I honestly think it's better to feel a lot than nothing at all.
And you know, who decided that being overly sensitive is a bad thing in comparison to being insensitive, or completely numb to what you're experiencing.
In my mind, there's one of those that is most certainly a better option.
So today we are going to discuss what it means to be a highly sensitive person, breaking down some of the myths and the misconceptions that others might have, but also going to explore what actually makes us sensitive on a genetic level, on a parental level, on a childhood level, the hidden powers and hidden talents of sensitive people when it comes to intelligence,
creativity, empathy, how to help people understand you more as a highly sensitive person, and kind of just having an overall conversation around how to make your sensitivity fit into the world, how to make the world make space for you as a sensitive person, and why the world should be doing that, why we need highly sensitive people, like you and I, to keep the world
spinning, to keep people feeling, to bring empathy and intelligence and a certain emotional vividness to situations that other people might not bring those things.
So there is so much in this episode that I think might surprise you, so many studies, research papers, fun facts that will hopefully allow you to know your own self even better as someone who is deeply feeling, as someone who is very in tune with the world and everything going on around them, because I just feel like highly sensitive people deserve to be seen, they
deserve to feel acknowledged, they are some of the best people in the world, so I want to make some space for them on this podcast and just talk about it with you guys today.
So there is so much on the agenda, I'm going to stop babbling, and without further ado, let's get into the psychology of highly sensitive people, and kind of answering that question, am I just too sensitive?
So starting off strong, what are the actual characteristics of a highly sensitive person in comparison to someone who is a regular sensitivity?
I don't know if it's regular, let's just say average.
With everything, what makes someone sensitive, what makes something anything really varies, it's probably worth noting that there are two different types of sensitivity, there is reactive or environmental sensitivity, and personality or internal sensitivity.
We all have times when we're just a little bit on edge and we're a little bit fragile, like when we're tired or when our hormones are fluctuating, when our anxiety is biking, because of a really stressful period in our lives, these are all incredibly taxing experiences and emotional states that are going to put a strain on our limited cognitive and mental resources.
That is why we are so sensitive during those times in particular, because we genuinely just have less energy in the tank to self-regulate and to process our emotions.
So that is environmental or reactive sensitivity.
The opposite of this is internal personality, long-standing trait sensitivity.
This is the kind of hypersensitivity that is part of who we are, part of our personality.
These are the people who we would call highly sensitive persons, HSPs, it literally has an acronym, and this was a term that was coined by the psychologist Elaine Aron in the 90s, and she wrote probably one of the most in-depth books on this titled very appropriately, it's called the highly sensitive person.
That is when this experience, this personality trait, this phenomena first.
