63: "I feel like I'm drowning, like I'm never caught up"

The Highly Sensitive Person Podcast

Kelly

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4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2016

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Two acquaintances in the same week made similar comments to me out of nowhere: that they felt behind, like they weren't getting enough done in their work and businesses. It made me sad to hear that they were struggling and not feeling good about themselves.

I can totally relate to the feeling of underachievement. I felt inspired to try to help those of us who can never live up to our own expectations. In this episode, I talk about:

How we compare ourselves to others on social media, even though we know it's not reality.
How happiness can only be now--not the future.
Never being content; always wanting "the other thing".
How we should stop saying "I should...."
....And stop beating ourselves up.

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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.
0:11.3	Join me on a journey of acceptance of our highly sensitive person traits.
0:17.6	Welcome to episode 63 of the Highly Sensitive Person Podcast. I'm your host, Kelly. This is a show for
0:25.1	people who have sensory processing sensitivity. I share stories, reflections, and personal
0:30.8	experiences about the benefits and struggles of being highly sensitive from my perspective.
0:37.3	Today's episode is about something really important to me right now,
0:41.0	and I hope I'm able to express what I want to express in a way that can help people.
0:47.3	It's about how it's so normal nowadays to brag about how busy we are,
0:51.9	and how that bragging, especially on social media, it makes us compare
0:56.2	ourselves to other people's curated images of themselves. And that leads us to feel really bad about
1:02.5	ourself. And that's actually the whole show in a nutshell. There were a few things that inspired
1:08.9	me to talk about this topic. A few days ago, an acquaintance of
1:12.8	mine, who is an independent entrepreneur, and I've done some writing and editing work for her in the past,
1:17.7	well, she emailed me to ask me to do some work, and she wrote in her email, she said,
1:24.7	I feel like I'm drowning. And it was kind of surprising because in the past, you know, we've always been friendly but professional.
1:32.5	We've never really talked about feelings or anything.
1:35.3	So it made me sad to hear that because it sounds like there might be some struggle going on there behind the scenes.
1:40.5	And to hear that someone I know is struggling just makes me a little bit sad.
1:46.2	And I totally relate to the feeling of drowning too.
1:49.7	For me, I have battled with that feeling that I'm never accomplishing enough every day.
1:55.4	In the morning, I'll wake up and my brain immediately starts running through 100 things that I need to do.
2:00.6	And I'll tell
	...

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