Ask Mayim Anything #4: Oversharing, Highly Sensitive People, & The Dangers of Self-Diagnoses

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Mayim Bialik

Mental Health, Society & Culture, Wellness, Health & Fitness, Comedy, Thebigbangtheory, Spirituality, Selfimprovement, Mentalhealth

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🗓️ 6 July 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

It’s another episode of Ask Mayim Anything! Mayim answers your questions about her ear piercings, the dangers of self-diagnosis, why we overshare with strangers, advice for sending your adult children into the world, and ways to navigate a relationship with a parent who won’t acknowledge their abuse. She breaks down Highly Sensitive People, Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, and the “Gifted” label. Mayim shares tips for combating feelings of worthlessness, managing a highly active brain, coping with change, calming test-taking nerves, and enhancing your focus. Stay tuned until the end for a mini Yiddish Word of the Day!

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0:00.0	If you do not want to engage with a parent who inflicted abuse on you, that's completely
0:09.6	reasonable.
0:10.7	If you're choosing to interact with a parent who inflicted abuse on you and they don't
0:15.2	acknowledge it, the choice is really yours as to whether you're able to continue to have
0:19.9	a relationship with them knowing that you know what's true but they don't have to agree
0:25.7	or you may choose to not have a relationship.
0:28.2	You also may choose to have a relationship and at some point you might say, I change
0:31.3	my mind, this isn't working for me.
0:33.4	But it's very painful to have others not acknowledge things that you believe that
0:38.6	they did to you.
0:40.6	And mostly I don't want to say avoid it but you likely cannot change another person's
0:48.4	sense of reality.
0:50.0	You are welcome and I think in general, we as humans are welcome to say to someone, there
0:55.0	are things that I experienced that would like to talk to you about, is that something
1:01.0	you're open to and if the answer is no, then you get to decide if that feels healthy
1:05.0	for you to continue.
1:06.5	But I want to just remind you that what happened to you is real and you don't need someone
1:12.0	else's validation.
1:14.4	Even though that's painful and even though that can feel really traumatic, if it feels
1:20.0	retraumatizing, it's not healthy for you to be there is my guess.
1:25.0	But there is a way to say I'm in acceptance that this person has a different view of reality
1:29.6	and it doesn't change my reality.
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