Letting Go of Shame as an HSP Highly Sensitive Person - Breaking the Anxiety Cycle 9/30

I'm starting to wonder if I could be an HSP. It would certainly explain a lot and I have been told I'm sensitive fairly often (and not as a compliment). Thanks for the video

I love this video. Thank you for making it. I am just now, within the last year, learning about the HSP personality. It describes me perfectly. It can be hard to be an HSP, because the rest of the world doesn't seem so accepting or accommodating of us, but I am starting to learn to love who I am and learning to work with it and give my body and mind what they need.

Too many extroverts are bullies.

It’s really insane that being thoughtful and caring is considered some type of oddity. Crazy world we are currently existing in. What’s more insane is there are courses being offered to help thoughtful & caring people on how to navigate what exactly? Obnoxious, selfish people?

My sensitivity allows me to feel God so strongly.
So despite the pain that comes with it. I will always love it.

This is a life saver, thank you 🙏🏻

“Sensitivity may take some extra time to rest to process this information”.
I like that.👍🏼

Heres my biggest thing. I saw a sophia loren movie when i was 11. Sunflower. Where her boyfriend left her. She threw his picture on the floor. Then she put it back on the wall. I couldnt handle it. Its about freedom. To be ourselves. Thats where these psych videos are helpful.

Its worse fir guys. Guys get hurt over break ups like girls do. They wont admit it. I know ive had an awfultime with that. Where i listened to laura branigan 50000 times. My mother complained.

I have seen my sensitivity as a flaw because my mother has taught that you can't show your weakness by crying or being hurt by things others say or complaining. Now I have re-learned that it's better for me to let out my feelings (sometimes alone) than to smother and go on without acknoledging what I feel. If I do that those feelings at some point burst out of me unwanted. I might shout and show anger or act passive-aggressively. With my only child I have seen that my sensitivity helps me read my daughters needs and emotions. She is under 2 years old so she doesn't speak very fluently yet. Pardon my English. I was quite amotional as I wrote this.

Oh my goodness! Thank you for acknowledging all the novels aimed at grade school children that include not only death, but fairly detailed descriptions of death. As a kid I was traumatized!

Sister labelled me as ‘tries too hard’.

I always wanted to be the ice cubes in my veins type: cold and unaffected by others and I think your video has helped me realize that is probably where a lot of self loathing came from. Maybe realizing this and trying to see the value in being a highly sensitive person will help me heal and build self-esteem. Thank you so much for your videos

Hsp as Empath and I can feel that days or situations people working agints me and try to make me look like a victim and that everything is my fault.

For HSP when emotional pain occurs it is often overwhelming

Where are the videos about how to deal with hypersensitive people? I'm not interested in walking on eggshells around such people.

I’m a Hospice nurse and being a HSP takes its toll for sure

I’ve known that I was a highly sensitive person since I was a toddler, I just didn’t know it had a name. Thank you for helping me feel like I have a superpower.

I’m 35 and finally learning that I’m an HSP. ❤❤❤❤

You are a beautiful human being Emma, and your content is super helpful to me.
Thank you ❤

This is why people must not be afraid to stab societal norms in the back and rebel against them.

I love being who I am. I sometimes wished I didn’t live in a this type of society.

I am an HSP and I've never had anxiety or depression. I'm not weak and miserable. It's just that
my world is overstimulating and it makes me mad, irritated and burnt out so I break down and cry but it's to release it all. When you look at nature, there's nothing in it that's an offense to the senses. This modern world is unnatural to human beings. All the noise, artificial smells and artificial lights, too much!

My father, a pastor, has always told me that I am too sensitive! To him, it is a weakness!

My narc. sister tried to get the whole family to help institutionalize me! I have learned that it's a gift from God and I'm GLAD I'm this way. I surely wouldn't want to be like her - she doesn't care about anyone, even her 2 daughters!!

I turned 60 last year and you have helped me so much to understand my reactions to some situations or to the fact that I truly like to be by myself. Don't get me wrong, I like people, yet most of the time I talk to them they complain and tell me how bad the world ist. Sadly enough, one of them is my own husband (not to say that this is the only thing he is talking about but every once in a while he does). Now back to you and how you helped me. I am thankful that I have the priviledge to watch your videos and I know that I am just fine and if I cry at a movie cause it touches me so deeply in that moment then it is totally alright. Thanks again.

I’ve just discovered I am an HSP, it gives me so much happiness knowing that I am like this, being able to learn more and look into it more will definitely help me to navigate the world in a different way, a better way hopefully.

My husband is always like, “can’t you just take a pill so you stop worrying?” Aka so he doesn’t get inconvenienced by my anxiety. But everyone loves how I keep the household running smoothly, always pack everything we might need, meals planned, cooked, and cleaned up after.

I know this is another comment added to the growing shuffle but nearly every point described was done with a great form of clarity that made this truly revelatory and helpful. I related so much to this I nearly wept because I felt as though I was discovering a piece of a missing puzzle I didn’t know was lost.

I’m actually glad that I was told by my therapist that I was a HSP. It gave me a sense of relief and understanding about why my behaviors were the way they are even when I was a kid. Though it took a bit of explaining to my parents that this was the reason for my struggles with emotional reactivity because it’s easy to attribute that to my brain injury, autism, and ADHD diagnoses.

Part of me kind of wishes that I could have been told that I was an HSP when I was much younger because it would’ve saved me a lot of strife and stress of being told so much and many times that I over react or that my emotions come off as too strong for the given situations that I find myself in. I have been fortunate that people didn’t get angry at me for being the way I was, mostly because of the fact that I was born with cerebral palsy and having to be in an already very inaccessible and not so inclusive world was already a very clear reason for why I had struggled with my emotions and stuff like that.

It doesn’t help that I am also an introvert on top of it. Introverts more often tend to be HSPs.

If it weren't for these so called therapist " scam artist " over analyzing everything. Nobody would even know the difference

You re saying everything I have ….no other Dr. has ever told me this before. I have been to Dr’s…..this is telling all my feelings are me….not something I am making up in my head. Everyone says I am a drama Queen and selfish. Know I am just me !

That's me.

Thank You! 💜 I so needed this today for so many reasons. Time to start anew as sensitivity is my strength, not my weakness, though I need wise loving boundaries to nurture it. Thank you so very much!!!! 💜💜💜

Any infj empaths here?

Yes!!!girl!!

What's it like being HSP...sucks! My parents couldn't give toss. Too obsessed with their own needs.

Wow, what an incredible explanation! I’ve had a lifetime of wishing I could be like others and go with the flow and in a short video you have given me a completely different view of what I thought were weaknesses. Thank you so much for the different perspective of how hsp’s are different but in a good way ❤️

I love this, thanks for sharing, beautiful! 💙

I'm hsp, but also a rebel. I've been bullied also because I'm the small and female child, with 1 older brother in a very machista growing environment. Been called also a freak that don't want to be touched, and I always think people are yelling 😅. Don't watch tv or anything too ugly, disgusting, fights or animal rescues. But I had never felt bad or guilty for it, that's me and I'm entitled to myself💁‍♀️; if I have to deal with them different people, they might as well cope with me or if not, fluff off 😁; I suffer other people's problems, yes, but I'm not super empath, I only advise if they want me to, otherwise I would feel nosy, but I'm not willing to be the trash can of everyone because it affects me, so I put a limit. I've learned to be tough in the inside so it reflects a little bit outside.

i will say due to my senstive nature i have extremely good intuition im often able to tell what things or people are like just from a look

I figured out in the past 5 years that I am an HSP. I have been taunted for being “too sensitive” throughout my entire marriage. Divorced but I always questioned myself. Now, I do not. I a man HSP and I am great with it. Finally...

❤❤❤ thank you

I love this series. It’s so me. Thank you. BTW, I have a t-shirt that says: I don’t care who dies in the movie so long as the dog lives!

I hate being a HSP, I wish I was ‘normal’.

Sensitive people gave us Winnie the Pooh and Paddington Bear. Imagine a Pooh-less childhood. That chubby little cubby all stuffed with puff enriched us all.

So a HSP can turn off their sensitivity? I'd argue that we can't. Biggest help is spreading the word, educate the public. Think of this, How long were Tourette's syndrome suffers imprisoned for blurting out flow worded obscenities before education help society co-exist with them.

So true. I hate being me, a HSP, but I’m hoping watching and reading more things like this will help with the self hatred.

It’s just so scary when people always leave you for it. At first they love exactly that about you. But then there comes the day they think it’s annoying.