Why You Feel Everything So Deeply (and how to survive it) - Dr Sasha Hamdani - #1147
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Why You Feel Everything So Deeply (and how to survive it) - Dr Sasha Hamdani - #1147

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 7, 20261 hr 24 min
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Dr Sasha Hamdani is a psychiatrist, ADHD specialist and author. Why are some people more emotionally sensitive than others? If you feel things more deeply, you’re not alone, and emotional sensitivity can be both a gift and a challenge. So, how can highly sensitive people manage intense emotions, and how can those close to them better understand and support them? Expect to learn what being a highly-sensitive person feels like, what Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria is and why social rejection hurts so much, why some people are more emotionally sensitive than others, why some people ne...

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Why did you get interested in researching emotionally sensitive people? Because I am an emotionally sensitive person. And I think also just from my body of work, seeing patients, you just start to see patterns of people becoming more or falling into the pattern of being emotionally sensitive. And what does that look like? What's the experience of life like for someone who's an emotionally sensitive person?

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You know, I think it's different for each person, but I think one of the bigger overarching things is that these are the people who feel things quickly, deeply, and for a long time. Okay. What would be the sort of way that they spend their days? Like they're going about their day, what will be some of the habits, some of the mental experiences that

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they go through? Yeah. So I think a lot of times people with emotional sensitivity, because they're taking So much emotional data, they are overanalyzing every interaction and reading it for, am I doing something weird? Is this other person doing something weird? Are you mad at me?

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