Highly Sensitive People, How to Repair, and When Your Partner Won't Stop Talking: November Mailbag

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

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🗓️ 27 November 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

What can I do if my partner dominates conversations about our relationship? How can I navigate situations where I want to repair, but other people don’t? What’s a “highly sensitive person,” and how does it relate to conditions like complex PTSD, ADHD, and autism? In this episode of Being Well, Dr. Rick and Forrest open up the mailbag and answer questions from listeners.

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0:00.0	Hello and
0:05.0	welcome to being well, I'm Forrest Hanson.
0:10.0	If you're new to the podcast, thanks for joining us today. And if you've listened before, welcome back. Today we're going to be opening up the mail bag and answering some questions from our listeners. And to help me do that, I'm joined joined I would say as usual here but it's
0:24.8	actually been kind of for the first time in a minute by Dr Rick Hansen
0:28.1	Rick is a clinical psychologist a best-selling author and he's also my dad so dad how you been doing
0:33.2	internally I've been doing great externally like many I'm quite concerned about both
0:39.6	my country America and the world well what a what a mood to start us out on here, Dad, but I think that that's a sentiment that, like you were saying,
0:48.0	a lot of people are experiencing right now.
0:50.0	And, you know, it's this really complex thing where you go about doing what you're doing and continuing with your day and you're checking your own boxes while you're aware of so much that's going on in the world around you and balancing that.
1:03.0	I think of Nicosie Johnson's line really briefly as you may know this boy
1:07.8	born with HIV in South Africa in the 1980s and he lived till about age 12 became a real
1:14.8	spokesperson for people with HIV AIDS in South Africa and in the world, especially
1:19.9	children. He said essentially do all that you can with what you've been given in the place
1:26.1	where you are in the time that you have.
1:29.7	And I think that what we can do right now is open up a mailbag and try to answer some
1:35.3	question from our listeners and try to give some reasonably good advice here so
1:39.3	if you'd like to have a question answered on a future edition of the podcast. The best way to do that is by joining our
1:44.9	Patreon page, it's Patreon.com slash Being Well Podcast. You can also shoot us an email to contact at being
1:51.8	well podcast.com or leave a comment on if you're watching
1:55.6	the YouTube of this particular podcast episode. I have a YouTube channel you can check it out.
2:00.0	You can leave a comment down there as well and we will probably see it. I would love to start with what I
2:07.2	thought was an absolutely fantastic question. We got so many great questions. We always get great
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