Understanding Your Intense Emotions: 10 Signs You Might Be A Highly Sensitive Person & How to Harness It as Your Superpower

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Mayim Bialik

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

4.7 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Are you a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)? Roughly 1 in 5 people have the HSP trait, and in this episode, Mayim and Jonathan explore what it really means to be highly sensitive. They take the official Highly Sensitive Person quiz, share personal stories, and break down the science behind sensory processing sensitivity. Learn how emotional overwhelm, sensory overload, and even trauma or pregnancy can intensify sensitivity and why being an HSP is often misunderstood. Discover the best careers for highly sensitive people, how to navigate relationships as an HSP, and the powerful connection between high sensitivity, introversion, and neurodivergence. Whether you identify as a highly sensitive person or love someone who does, you’ll find practical tools, coping strategies, and surprising insights to help you thrive in a loud world. Don’t miss this empowering, science-backed look at the highly sensitive personality.

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0:00.0	1.2 to 1.6 billion people could be highly sensitive.
0:05.0	Being told you're too sensitive, what it feels like is shame.
0:10.0	Like, I am too emotionally reactive. I don't know how to interact.
0:15.0	Everything seems like it's bothering me or it is bothering me.
0:19.0	You may have difficulty in school. You may have difficulty in
0:22.0	work situations that are too open-ended and don't have enough structure. Other people seem to have
0:26.7	social stamina that highly sensitive people cannot tolerate or match. Because it's so socially
0:32.7	unacceptable to be a highly sensitive person, you end up sort of adapting and it can kind of feel like you don't know who you are.
0:40.3	Just don't feel. Hold it inside.
0:42.3	What if we frame being a highly sensitive person as a person who's able to feel and then also communicate that to other people as a superpower?
0:50.3	Some of these characteristics of being a highly sensitive person really make people remarkable
0:57.0	in many ways.
0:58.0	What I would tell parents of kids who might be displaying some of these qualities is that
1:03.0	you are potentially raising an exceptionally emotionally, emotionally attuned human being, a child
1:10.0	who may be a gifted creator.
1:16.6	Hi, I'm I'm Biolik. I'm Jonathan Cohen. And welcome to a special MBB Explorers.
1:25.6	My, the real question everyone wants to know is, do you cry easily?
1:30.6	Yes.
1:31.2	You get overwhelmed in crowds.
1:32.9	Yes.
1:33.3	Do you feel exhausted after hanging out with people too long?
1:36.5	I get exhausted after hanging out with myself for too long.
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