11: I Hate Being Highly Sensitive
The Highly Sensitive Person Podcast
Kelly
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2014
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Why can't I ever be happy with the way things are? Why do little things bother me? Why do I complain so much?
Why can't I be normal?
These feelings make me angry at myself. Why can’t I just suck it up and deal with small annoyances? Why can’t I just relax and have fun? Why are things so hard for me and easy for everyone else?
This is the episode I warned you about last week--the really negative one where I say the word "hate" like 100 times.
In this Episode 11 of the Highly Sensitive Person Podcast, I talk about the dark feelings I sometimes have about being highly sensitive and introverted. And of course, I talk about some positive stuff, too.
If you are turned off by negativity, skip this one. But if you sometimes beat yourself up over the way you are, maybe this will give you some comfort to know you aren't alone.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the highly sensitive person podcast, a weekly podcast for people who experience the world brighter, louder, and more intensely. |
| 0:13.0 | Join me on a journey of acceptance of our highly sensitive traits. |
| 0:18.1 | Welcome to episode 10 of the highly sensitive person podcast. I'm your host, Kelly. |
| 0:24.8 | Today's episode is my big negative episode. And you may remember last week I talked about how I wanted |
| 0:31.7 | to do sort of like a compliment sandwich where I did one positive show and then a negative |
| 0:37.0 | show and then another positive show to |
| 0:39.7 | offset the negativity. So I am warning you ahead of time that this is going to be very negative. |
| 0:45.6 | So if that type of thing really bothers you or irritates you, you might want to skip this one. |
| 0:50.7 | Because today I want to talk about why I hate being highly sensitive. Sometimes when I get |
| 0:57.1 | in a really negative mood, I describe it as feeling like there's a storm cloud over my head. |
| 1:04.1 | And I almost imagine like I can hear the thunder rumbling because I'm in sort of a funk where I feel |
| 1:10.5 | so negative about everything. |
| 1:13.0 | But when I am having these unhappy thoughts, I'm thinking about how I hate being highly |
| 1:19.0 | sensitive. I wish that I was normal. I wish I wasn't bothered by so many small things. |
| 1:26.0 | I wish I could just be happy instead of always wishing things were |
| 1:29.1 | better all the time. And these feelings make me angry at myself. Why do I have to complain so much? |
| 1:35.7 | Why can't I just suck it up and deal with small annoyances? Why can't I just relax and have fun? |
| 1:42.5 | Why are things so hard for me and so seemingly easy for everyone |
| 1:47.0 | else? Here's some other things I hate, and I'm going to say the word hate probably like 200 times |
| 1:54.0 | during this show. I hate that I have to think about every little detail about every single little |
| 1:59.5 | decision. I hate that social interaction |
| 2:02.3 | wears me out so much. I hate that too much noise and bright lights bother me so much to the |
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