66. The worst places on earth for HSPs

The Highly Sensitive Person Podcast

Kelly

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🗓️ 29 June 2016

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Overstimulation. Noise, chaos, bright lights, smells, crowds. These are the highly sensitive person's kryptonite.

I've brainstormed a list of what I think are the worst places on earth for HSPs.

This episode is a little different than most—this isn’t advice, or a serious topic. It is sort of tongue-in-cheek, a little sarcastic, and even a bit silly. It’s more about pondering all the things that set off HSPs and then thinking which places have a lot of those things. So, disclaimer: don’t take this too seriously. Not everyone will agree with this list.

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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.
0:10.4	Join me on a journey of acceptance of our highly sensitive person traits. Welcome to episode 66 of the
0:20.6	HSP podcast. I'm your host Kelly. This is a show for people who have the trait of sensory processing sensitivity or people who just want to learn more about being highly sensitive.
0:32.1	Before jumping into today's topic, I'd like to share two quick emails with you that I received recently from
0:37.9	some listeners. To keep their privacy, I'm not going to share their names. The first wrote,
0:44.5	I found your website by coincidence. I live in Madrid, Spain, and despite sometimes my English not
0:50.3	being good enough to understand every single word you say, your podcasts are really good for me
0:55.0	because I'm discovering that there are more people who feel like me and I'm not weird as many other
1:00.2	people believe. And the second is actually a comment from my blog that says, I discovered your website
1:07.7	and podcasts about a month ago. Like a lot of people here, I spent most of my life thinking that I was strange as I struggled
1:14.0	to cope in this crazy overstimulating world.
1:17.5	But after discovering Dr. Aaron and your website and podcast, I've started learning to understand
1:22.4	myself and how to be happier.
1:25.3	The reason I share these comments is because I think it's powerful to know that you,
1:31.1	listener, aren't alone. You can listen to the show and maybe you relate to some of the things I say,
1:37.4	but you might not realize just how many other people out there feel the same way. There are so many of us. So today, I want to talk about
1:48.7	overstimulation. Noise, chaos, bright lights, odors, crowds. These are all kryptonite to a highly
1:57.9	sensitive person. A while back, I brainstormed a list of all the places I
2:03.0	could think of that seemed to me to be the worst places on earth for HSPs. So this episode is a little
2:10.1	different than most. This is an advice or a serious topic. It's sort of tug-in-cheek, kind of
2:16.6	light-hearted, and dare I say, even a little bit silly. It's sort of tongue-in-cheek, kind of light-hearted, and dare I say, even a little bit
2:19.7	silly. It's more about thinking about all the things that tend to set off HSPs and then thinking
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