02: I Feel Suffocated by Stagnant, Warm Air

The Highly Sensitive Person Podcast

Kelly

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🗓️ 7 August 2014

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Does stagnant, warm, still air make you feel suffocated or claustrophobic? Do you need a fan or cool, fresh air to avoid a panic attack? I'm amazed to report that this specific topic is the most popular post on my blog. Who knew this was such a common thing?!

In this episode, I talk about my personal experiences with warm, still air, and offer some solutions to the issue.

Podcast music attribution: Bust This Bust That (Professor Kliq) / CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

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0:00.0	This is the highly sensitive person podcast, a weekly podcast for people who care deeply about everything.
0:12.2	Join me on a journey to accept the way we intensely experience the world.
0:19.5	Hey everyone, welcome to the highly sensitive person podcast. Every Tuesday, I'm
0:25.0	throwing down real life stories about what it's like to be in HSP, experiencing the joy,
0:31.0	discomfort, and emotions of life very intensely. On my blog, highly sensitiveperson.net, there's one post that has gotten more
0:41.8	comments than any other post, and it's about my difficulty with places that have hot, still
0:50.4	air. There are a few instances in my life where I really realize this issue I have, and two of those
0:57.7	instances were on overnight trains. During the most recent overnight train ride, I was in a
1:04.2	berth with four people, and in the middle of the night, I heard one of the other people get out of
1:09.8	their bunk and go shut the window to our little area. night, I heard one of the other people get out of their bunk and go shut the
1:11.2	window to our little area. And as I heard this person shutting the window, I remember starting to
1:17.2	feel a panic, like I couldn't believe what they were doing and that I was not going to be able to
1:22.0	handle how hot it was in this train car. Even though I'm sure the reason they were shutting the window
1:27.4	was because it
1:28.2	helped block out a lot of the really loud train noise. As soon as they shut that window, I told
1:33.7	myself, okay, relax, just be calm, you got to get through this. But as the moments passed,
1:40.8	I felt myself getting more and more panicked that it was just rising inside me and getting worse
1:47.8	too. And the air felt so still and so close, it was like time was standing still. It didn't help
1:55.4	that the bunk above me was literally just a few inches from my face. Eventually, I said, screw all politeness, I don't care.
2:05.4	I got up and I opened that window again. Another instance when I experienced this feeling was on a
2:12.1	four-hour bus ride in Thailand. All of the passengers were packed onto this bus. As many people as could possibly fit in
2:20.7	this van were packed in there, and the air conditioning was pretty much non-existent. I immediately felt a
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