hi mayim! love mayim bialik’s breakdown! thank you for your work. thank you, malik and j.cohen! 😁🖖🏽

HSP is not a diagnosis It's a trait

Mind. Talk less and listen and see more. The gun part of when I process and the exiting part is discovery.

Thank you for coming out to the world. People think I'm full of it; when I say I to am highly sensitive and a empath. People think I'm crazy. As a male.. especially a black male in America I have learned to educate myself and be very stoic in my mannerisms and my frame

Ken Jennings syndicated version is worth watching! Mayim Bialik primetime version is worth watching.

Thanks for explaining. Medical text usually has more difficult names for afflictions and diseases, so HSP meaning Highly Sensitive Person is as simple as it gets... I guess. By the way, if music is too loud, I don't like it. Perfume too strong? Depends I guess on who is wearing it. Uncomfortable situation? I'm in one now. But, if you can't explain your difficulty (not you Catherine) then people tend to invent an affliction. However, I give you this, we have a huge amount of disparate personalities, so somewhere there is a 3 letter acronym to describe them all. I'm GAY. Generally Annoyed Yesterday. But I hope for better tomorrow. Man I'm going to be beat up on that one.

Also depressed people are too sensitive

I'm like that if a tv is too loud. I don't know how to explain it because it's not really like loudness always bothers me but it does if I'm in a very small enclosed space and it's too loud. Strobing lights do it as well.

@@chloes.8026 I agree with you there. I have a 'roommate' whom I've known for years. Sometimes I don't know who is the one that's more deaf. I think it only matters who is still drinking, and who is trying to sleep. Meanwhile, it's way too damn loud! I'm just depressed and too sensitive. Which I guess makes sense. These are depressing times.

Yes! I'm like that and my daughter is too-even as a baby everything bothered her.

I would like to go on a road trip with these two. Conversation for days!!!

Yeah, great platform to educate a huge audience on something that gets misunderstood a lot. I’m misunderstood a lot and it’d be nice to make this more aware

You're right!

100% yes, I really wish she didn't keep saying "diagnosis"!!!!

Exactly, a miss understanding of HSP's is that it is a illness or a problem ( Diagnosis) , when in fact you are gifted with a unique trait tat only 20% of the population has. Here's the disturbing part, 30% of the population have been identified as being LSP's or "Low Sensitive People". On the higher end of the LSP's are people with little care or regard to others, they have little to no empathy and their thinking is generally less in depth. On the lower end of the LSP scale is the narcissistic and even psychopathy people. 50% of the worlds population fit in between and this is what many see as being "Normal".....normal is a setting on a clothes dryer! So much anger in the world today, HSP's are deeply caring, empathetic, kind and understanding people. Our biggest issue is the harshness of the LSP's, this is how the term ""Overwhelmed" comes into play. Think about this? Imaging a world full of LSP's?

1. I do need to see a therapist some day unrelated to being HSP, because I do have past trauma to work through, but in the meantime I can probably help myself a smidge by at least 2) reading this book so I don’t feel so weird about being HSP which sometimes I do feel burdened by, while most times I embrace this personality trait because I do think it’s one reason why I am the person that I am.

That was the book that changed my life too. I finally found out that "just get over it" was not something I had to accept from a "well-meaning" relative.

Saaaaaame!

Same it’s awful I want to die half the time

I am the same. God bless us all!♥️

Dont forget its also your biggest strenght xxx

It's also quite hard to find friendships that last. I'm quite friendly, but also borderline introverted, and highly sensitive, so most of my friendships last 2.2 seconds. 😭 They should have a Tinder for finding highly sensitive friends lol

Yes, and I try not to think about it too deeply. You summed it up perfectly...she is real, with a good sense of humor an intelligence as sort of the sprinkles on the ice cream. In a way she reminds me of a woman who I spent and entire evening with a couple of decades ago. At the end of the night she closed the book she was reading and smiled across the lamp at me. “Oh. Are you still here?” I closed my book and smiled back at her. It was the end of a perfect first date. Sometimes it takes a simple thing, like closing a book, to realize you are with your soul mate. She is in her 80s now and I am entering my mid 70s. Circumstance finds us 800 miles apart, but our hearts have never parted.

SPS (sensory processing sensitivity) also known as HSP is not a personality trait --- it is a genetic trait - inherited by 15-20% of the population and found in over 100 animal species. One's "personality" develops over time and is highly influenced y environments whether positive or negative.

@@JacquelynStrickland_HSP Every medical or psychology site you look it up on it says "personality trait". Anywhere from 20 to 60 percent of your personality traits are inherited.

Agreed

Ok. What is the trait for constantly correcting people?

It’s possibly become both.

@@veronicamitchell9378 what is the trait for being snide when people qualified to make distinctions make distinctions?

PB J Not indicating there is not a difference

SPS is not a personality trait --- it is a genetic trait - inherited by 15-20% of the population and found in over 100 animal species. One's "personality" develops over time and is highly influenced y environments whether positive or negative. And it is important to know that altho 70% of HSPs are introverts, the remaining 30% are sensitive extroverts -- quite different from the typical 'extrovert.'

And ironically by being in these caring roles it can exacerbate things. E.g. I tried to go into social work but promptly left because I could never leave my job at the door. I’d be sad and crying over the world. Even fictional films about people suffering would cause be so much grief. It’s hard to be so sensitive and so empathetic to humanity. But, I am learning to embrace this personality trait.

yes, they were talking about it, but giving harmful, erroneous information that their wide audiences would believe. In worst case scenarios sensitive people could now think there is something sick or wrong about themselves and just as dangerous, they could be labeled by others as being "sick."

Margaret, I like your wording *blossomed* . As it refers to when she played Blossom in that tv show. Did you do that on purpose? or did it just come out that way? *lol* She is an incredible person and always has been. Great actress also. 💗💗

@@youkie5321 🙂 G'day mate, I reckon I was born in 1995 ~ so I didn't watch the program "Blossom" until I started watching "The Big Bang Theory!" The comment is a bit cheeky mate, eh ~ but intended ;) "The Big Bang Theory" is one of me favourite programs mate. Happy New Year! Cheers from Western OZ!!!

@@myinfinitestate1586 Yes a bit cheeky *lol* ?? eh mate 👏 Yes, unfortunately or fortunately I'm old enough to say I used to watch the show Blossom. I too am a very *Big* Bang Theory Geek. *ha ha* I watch re-runs over & over. Happy New Year to you too 🎈🥳 & Cheers from Western Pa. 😁

@@youkie5321 Sorry, but what is Western Pa mate? Are you in the States? I've only been to California & Hawaii to surf. But never to this special place you refer to, Western Pa mate. I'm literally gobsmacked LOL. Good on ya. Cheers from Down Under......

@@myinfinitestate1586 You said from Western Australia and I replied Western Pennsylvania! Sorry, you got me on a roll and I went with it. *lol* 🤭 I assume you are located in the Western part of Australia? and I'm from the Western part of Pa. You sure do have a great Australian vocabulary I've always loved hearing Australian's talk & hearing their accents. Ok, so what is "gobsmacked" I assume like awestruck or something like that? You have been to the warmer of our states, Ca & Hi. I don't think that you would want to come to Pa. (all abbv. for states) It is soooooo cold here, 🥶especially since we have very long winters. I'm originally from Florida. 🌞I can't wait to get back there to the warm sunshine. Actually Florida is called the Sunshine State.🌞 Do you have a winter in Australia? I have always wanted to go to Australia. Nice talking to ya. 😁

I noticed that too 😂

yes!!!!!!!!

She has a PhD in neuroscience!!! 🤣

Exactly. There’s nothing wrong with us, we just ARE. I’m a bit disappointed such an intellectual woman would associate HSP as a “diagnosis” and use other terms/verbs that imply it’s a condition as if we need to be fixed.

@@SL-lz9jr I think, in a way, it's easiest to explain in a simple way but it was surprising that she chose that word. I will say, it's a hard topic to really find words for without sounding a little loopy. Even she was joking about how it was even 'too much' for her.

Omg, yes. I’m surprised she did that too given how intellectual she is. Oh well,no one’s perfect but she shouldn’t be so casual when speaking on mental health related topics if she’s doing a podcast about it.

@@lijohnyoutube101 It matters because the word "diagnosis" means the identification of an illness or problem. Being highly sensitive is neither an illness nor a problem. It is important because a sensitive person just hearing this on the tv show could now begin to feel "less," or "broken," and lose self-esteem. It is good that we can have a conversation about this.

Haha same !

thank you a million times! I hope Kelly includes this correction on her show.

Breeann Williams -- SPS is not a personality trait --- it is a genetic trait - inherited by 15-20% of the population and found in over 100 animal species. One's "personality" develops over time and is highly influenced y environments whether positive or negative. And it is important to know that altho 70% of HSPs are introverts, the remaining 30% are sensitive extroverts -- quite different from the typical 'extrovert.'

Same here. I take Zoloft to help manage.

@@Cgee3 Same here, I also take an SSRI to manage. There's a few great Facebook groups for HSP's.

@@Cgee3 I find it helps to quiet my mind by listening to meditations or sounds in nature. 💕

You are not wrong. Being highly sensitive is not an illness.

She's mind blowned because a neuroscientist actress just gave her the keys to explain her existence 🤣🤣🤣

Thank you. I've been trying every day since I saw this to get Kelly and Mayim to make new shows, podcasts, social media to rectify this misinformation before anyone who has just seen this first reference to their sensitivity begins to believe that there is something wrong with them. Yes, they must address this.

For me, i because a nurse...hardest thing I could have ever done. I’m less sensitive now with age and burnout. My natural self is so highly caring, and empathetic. Doesn’t make for the happiest of lives, others are usually put first.

Empath and HSP share common traits but aren’t the same. One can be both though.

@@SL-lz9jr Oh...I would say I’m both 🙂

@Highly Sensitive Strong how kind, you are welcome!

Lol she’s not that kind of sensitive or intuitive person. And it doesn’t mean we aren’t flawed human beings. We still have our blind spots. Plus other personality traits that intersect with being HSP. It just means that generally we are way more empathetic people, we feel emotions more deeply, and we rely heavily on intuition to guide us. We make great mediators because our capacity for empathy means we can relate to both parties in a quarrel or dispute. We can be impartial or nonjudgmental. It doesn’t mean we don’t miss things or don’t have biases. No one is perfect. But yeah... has nothing to do with her lack of reaction to Kelly.

I’ve been reading that HSP and empaths are different but related traits. It’s possible Mayim is both. I definitely am not an empath but an HSP.

yes!!!!!!!!!! thank you. Hope kelly clarifies on future show as this does a great disservice to us.

We all need to contact Kelly and Mayim to implore them to make a retraction. Being sensitive is not a mental health disorder and their stating it the way they did is seriously harmful.