On this episode of Narcissist Apocalypse Q&A, everyone.

I am Brandon Chadwick.

And with me today, we have Dr. Amelia Kelly. How are you?

I am great. I'm energized. Well, thank you for being here. And today we're going to be talking about highly sensitive people, the susceptibility of people who are HSP to get into abusive relationships and toxic relationships.

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So to reach Dr. Kelly, you can go to amelia Kelly.com, and that is spelled A-M-E-L-E-L-I-A-K-E-L-E-Y.com. That will be in the show

notes. And for those of you that don't remember, she has a doctorate of philosophy and psychology

from Capella University, along with a master's in art therapy and counseling from Nazareth

College of Rochester.

She is a licensed clinical mental health counselor.

And she is a highly, you are trained as being a highly sensitive person's therapist.

So people are sitting there thinking to themselves, what is a highly sensitive person?

And for those that don't know it, 15 to 20% of people in society are highly sensitive people. So explain to us first, like, what are,

what's a highly sensitive person and what I guess are the character traits or the things that

qualifies someone as being highly sensitive? So high sensitivity to start is a state trait,

meaning that this is a quality that can be genetic

and is ingrained within the way that your brain interacts with the world around you

and the nervous system interacts with the world around you.

So I start with that to say what it's not is it's not being emotional.

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