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

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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. If you’d like to have a question answered on the podcast, you can join us on Patreon or send it in to contact@beingwellpodcast.com. You can watch this episode on YouTube. Key Topics: 0:00: Introduction 2:00: What can I do when my partner dominates relationship conversations, but also complains about me “interrupting?” 12:45: How can you repair with family members…when they don’t want to repair? 22:55: Why do intrusive thoughts arise late at night? How can we address them? 28:00: I give to a fault in my relationships. What can I do? 34:10: How do you work with the tendency to be overly competitive? 40:45: What do you think about the Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) “diagnosis?” How does it relate to conditions like complex PTSD, ADHD, and autism? 55:15: Recap Sponsors: Start speaking a new language in just 3 weeks with Babbel! Get 55% off at Babbel.com/BEING. Zocdoc helps you find expert doctors and medical professionals that specialize in the care you need, and deliver the type of experience you want. Head to zocdoc.com/being and download the Zocdoc app for FREE. Factor delivers fresh, never-frozen, fully prepared meals right to your door. Head to factormeals.com/beingwell50 and use code beingwell50 to get 50% off. Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! Want to sleep better? Try the Calm app! Visit calm.com/beingwell for 40% off a premium subscription. Finally get that project off the ground with Squarespace! Head to squarespace.com/beingwell for a free trial, and when you’re ready to launch use coupon code BEINGWELL to save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. Connect with the show: Subscribe on iTunes Follow Forrest on YouTube Follow us on Instagram Follow Forrest on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Visit Forrest's website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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