136: Depression & the Highly Sensitive Person

[@LourdesViadoPhDMFT]

Survey Invitation for HSPS who have experienced Trauma We're in the process of creating resources that are beneficial for Highly Sensitive Persons (HSPs) who have experienced trauma. We’ve developed a questionnaire in order to best understand what’s most helpful. If this applies to you, and you’re interested in learning more about this topic, we would love to have you participate in this survey. Your responses are anonymous unless you choose to provide that information. Please feel free to share the link with others! Link to survey: forms.gle/bmWQrDNFJ8frXT6W9 Lourdes Viado, PhD, LMFT and Carmen Schmidt Benedetti, LMFT

[@johnnylawton52]

Hi there, i’ve only just identified myself as a HSP. For 20+ years i’ve always been a little different yet have always been able to connect with people. I suffered a major near death experience and my sensitivity got even worse and for a very long time i never knew what was wrong with me untill i started to do some proper research. It does kinda suck because you feel misunderstood but if you can enlighten the positives you can change someones life and do some seriously profound things. Please keep going and focus on the good fellow HSPs! I know it’s hard but you have a special gift :)

[@HopeLives2012]

Thank you Johnny, your words comforted me that I'm not a misfit.😢

[@susie5254]

Out of the HUNDREDS, maybe thousands of videos I've listened to over the last 10 years, this is the FIRST time I felt validated that "getting help" is an exercise in high-endurance which is something a person suffering from depression is lacking. Even getting a psychiatrist outside an insurance network to monitor meds is almost impossible. A private psychiatrist did me a favor by squeezing me in after three weeks (most don't take new clients at all, some were available after three months) at a cost of $600 and she had not heard of HSP. (Dr. Aaron sounded "familiar"). One feels abandoned. How dangerous for someone experiencing a severe depressive episode.

[@HopeLives2012]

Totally

[@madelinebigio7565]

Yesssss after feeling sad and depressed after watching bad news especially in NewYork City I started to listen to Christian music and singing and getting so Joyful too

[@madelinebigio7565]

Hello yes this my first time in the podcast and that is me the highly sensitive I’m so like what you described! I didn’t realize that I was so highly sensitive..

[@LourdesViadoPhDMFT]

Glad this was helpful for you!

[@jane77722]

Excellent!

[@madelinebigio7565]

Sounds like me and the nieghbors younger girl up stairs today and her out Burst of anger and slamming things around and me being the HSP ! I’m really empathetic because I’m feeling because of everything that is coming at us through media and what is really happening to our community and of the vulnerable people in a big city that are suffering and since I’m a spiritual person I can be very empathetic and I was diagnosed as a ADHD But I was overwhelmed and stimulated physically emotionally and physically challenged and was force to go take a crowded train to get some help like a place called ICD where they helped people I had a car trauma in a whip flash and then was forced to go look for a job and I was expressing myself I was depressed because I couldn’t find a job and I was physically challenged because I was getting head ache and they misdiagnosed me with ADHD But I was depleted and needed to recover from my trauma from the neck injury and a whip lash and they knew I had Fibromyalgia and lost of sleep too ‘ so combine all that and not getting a good night sleep

[@HopeLives2012]

I'm so sorry

[@jamesspencer3664]

Maybe do a conversation on those in a relationship with a depressed hsp

[@madelinebigio7565]

Wow this what happened to me years ago That is how I was misdiagnosed with ADHD and now with this younger girl and I think that because I was listening to Christian music group from my church on line and I was singing to 230 am I need some down time even from social media scrolls too

[@madelinebigio7565]

That is me bieng highly sensitive about is all the things around me ! That is me empathy ! I’m feeling it that is me my friend gets angry I feel it and someone is going through something! like if a friend that is my human nature !

[@TheEunoiaProject]

Love! We want to make positive content just like you!💜

[@criticalthinker72]

You know what it's so not fair is sitting here watching all these podcasts and being told that you need to find a highly sensitive counselor. What is your suggestion for people that can't afford one. Cuz I'm going on 30 years now of counselors that don't know what they're doing or talking about. Honestly I don't think that's fair at all to me I don't think that's giving me the chance that I deserve.

[@LourdesViadoPhDMFT]

It is frustrating when you cannot find the support you need and when finances are a barrier. Try Open Path Collective and In the search box, enter "Highly Sensitive Persons"

[@avalonmist254]

I don't find anything about being lost and depressed HSP or not as something to laugh about... Suicide is so Funny! Very sad that so called Professionals are this cold and ignorant