54. Crying
The Highly Sensitive Person Podcast
Kelly
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2015
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
HSPs cry easily.
HSPs cry all the time.
In this episode, I talk about my problem with the statements like the ones above, and whether or not HSPs really DO cry "a lot" or not.
I also discuss the difference in crying in a ranking situation versus a linking situation (the concept comes from a great blog post by Dr. Elaine Aron.)
Mentioned on the show:
- Blog post: "About Crying Easily" by Dr. Elaine Aron
Related content on this blog:
- My response to The Telegraph article about HSPs
- My response to the Wall Street Journal article about HSPs
- Tearing up at performance reviews at work
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Transcript
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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. |
| 0:11.1 | Join me on a journey of acceptance of our highly sensitive person traits. |
| 0:18.0 | Welcome to episode 54. I'm your host, Kelly. Welcome back to the show. It's been a few weeks. |
| 0:26.7 | This is a podcast for people who are highly sensitive or want to learn more about being highly |
| 0:31.8 | sensitive or better understand the people in their life who have this trait. |
| 0:40.0 | Before jumping into today's topic, |
| 0:45.4 | I'd like to share an email I received recently from a listener. To keep her privacy, I'm not going to share her name. She wrote, For years, I was always comparing myself to my siblings, |
| 0:52.6 | why I seemed too sensitive and cry more easily than any of them. |
| 0:56.8 | I hated myself really bad, especially when I get frustrated over silly things and immediately cry |
| 1:02.2 | in front of everyone, which is really embarrassing for me. And I kept searching the web a lot on how |
| 1:08.0 | to not be sensitive and just be normal like everyone else. |
| 1:12.0 | I never assume that I am normal. |
| 1:15.3 | You just have no idea how happy I am that I finally, finally got to understand myself |
| 1:20.9 | and understand why my brain works the way it does. |
| 1:25.2 | And this is the very first night that I will sleep knowing that I am normal |
| 1:29.4 | and there is nothing wrong with me. Do you know how that feels? It's just indescribable. |
| 1:37.3 | Thank you so much for that email. That is the power of knowledge, of self-knowledge, |
| 1:43.7 | knowing something about you that makes you realize |
| 1:46.3 | you aren't weird or wrong or crazy. And that's a wonderful feeling. Today's episode is about crying. |
| 1:56.2 | I have to tell you, when I hear high sensitivity being described as a person who cries a lot, it really |
| 2:03.1 | bugs me. And it seems like this happens a lot. A month ago, there was an article about HSP's |
| 2:09.6 | published in both the Irish Independent and the Telegraph. It was titled, Jumpy, Easily Ups |
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