47. Overwhelmed by Big Parties
The Highly Sensitive Person Podcast
Kelly
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2015
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
Recently, I found myself at a big family party. Even though I liked everyone there, and was happy to be there, it did remind me how hours-long parties can wear on me, no matter how much I like the people there. Here are my tips on how to deal with overwhelm at long parties.
Related content on my blog:
- Handling Criticism (Episode 38)
- Enjoy parties for the first time ever...take 2 cars!
- A blog post where I grump about not doing well at a party
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| 0:00.0 | This is the highly sensitive person podcast. For people who experience the world brighter, |
| 0:08.2 | louder, and more intensely, join me on a journey of acceptance of our highly sensitive person |
| 0:14.9 | traits. Welcome to episode 47. I'm your host, Kelly. This is a twice-monthly podcast about what it's like to have |
| 0:25.6 | sensory processing sensitivity. Before I jump into today's topic, I wanted to share a comment that a reader left |
| 0:32.9 | on the blog. I'm going to omit her name for privacy reasons. This is what she wrote. This is big for me. Wow. |
| 0:41.3 | It was not until just three days ago I finally stumbled onto an article about HSPs. It has changed my |
| 0:47.5 | beliefs of myself in such a grand manner. I am 44 years old and my whole life I've heard the exact |
| 0:53.5 | statements and words over and over again |
| 0:55.5 | to the point that I have been obsessed with figuring out what is wrong with me. But three days ago, |
| 1:00.5 | it shifted to what is right with me. It's a huge relief and I thank you to all involved. The words I |
| 1:07.6 | heard my whole life, you overanalyze everything, you're way too sensitive, you're so |
| 1:12.0 | emotional, et cetera. Being the knowledge junkie and seek of the truth, I have read most of what I |
| 1:17.7 | could find so far and taking all the quizzes and it's almost been scary. My hair stands up to hear me |
| 1:23.8 | being described almost to a tea. In the past few months, I've become filled with something |
| 1:29.5 | so powerful, and I'm trying to solve this puzzle to find out more about myself. Thank you so much |
| 1:37.0 | for that wonderful comment. I love to share things like that because I think we all like to hear, |
| 1:42.3 | we all like to know that we're not alone. And I think a lot of us have |
| 1:45.6 | realizations like the one I just read, that big aha moment where you realize, wow, I'm not the |
| 1:51.0 | only one who feels this way. So let's jump into today's topic. A couple weeks ago, I traveled |
| 1:57.5 | to the other side of the country to visit family and friends, and I found myself |
| 2:01.7 | at a big family party. Now, everybody's family is different, so it's hard to generalize in any way, |
| 2:08.7 | but it just so happens that I really liked all the people that were there. I'm really fortunate |
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