49. Arguing with internet trolls and other people who anger you
The Highly Sensitive Person Podcast
Kelly
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2015
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever gotten into an argument about politics with a family member or co-worker and you got really angry and fired up? Have you ever gotten into a fight online with a complete idiot? Then, did you later find yourself turning over the events in your head, getting angry all over again? Then you felt a little sheepish about it? This episode is about just that--when we HSPs get passionate and fired up about our opinions, we sometimes forget that we have a CHOICE about whether or not to get upset. Here are some tips on how to deal with those people who really know how to push your buttons.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the highly sensitive person podcast, a twice monthly podcast for people who experience the world intensely. |
| 0:11.4 | Join me on a journey of acceptance of our highly sensitive person traits. |
| 0:18.1 | Welcome to episode 49. I'm your host, Kelly. |
| 0:22.9 | This is a twice monthly podcast about what it's like to have sensory processing sensitivity. |
| 0:29.7 | And believe it or not, I just realized that this is the one year anniversary of this show. |
| 0:35.0 | Episode one was a year ago. Wow. So anyway, today's episode is about how to deal with |
| 0:42.4 | people who push your buttons and make you angry. I'm a member of several Facebook groups for |
| 0:49.5 | highly sensitive people and I see this topic come up a lot. People will describe a coworker, family |
| 0:55.5 | member, or a stranger on the internet who says something that they disagree with so strongly |
| 1:01.0 | that they get angry. But the worst part about these types of conflicts is that they stay with |
| 1:07.0 | the person for a long time. They can't stop thinking about it and turning it over in their |
| 1:11.7 | head and feeling riled up about it. What finally inspired me to do an episode on this topic was two |
| 1:18.2 | recent posts on the HSP subreddit on Reddit. And I want to read these posts to you before I get into |
| 1:24.5 | the meat of the show to see if you can relate. Here's the first one. |
| 1:29.7 | I fought with a couple of racist rednecks on Facebook recently. It was very intense for me because |
| 1:35.7 | I'm not usually very confrontational, but some things send me into a rage and I react very |
| 1:42.1 | strongly. In this case, it was online. I'll get very personal and nasty, |
| 1:47.4 | like I'm in a knife fight or something. I feel like a cornered animal, and I feel like someone |
| 1:52.6 | is attacking, and I'll explode like a lion surrounded by hyenas. Needless to say, |
| 1:58.2 | interactions like this keep my synapsies churning for days. Is this normal for HSPs? |
| 2:06.0 | So that was the first example. It's someone getting really angry about something a stranger |
| 2:10.9 | posted online, something they disagreed with and felt the need to reply to and set them straight. |
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