Comments on: #213 – The Highly Sensitive Person with Ted Zeff http://www.shrinkrapradio.com/2009/07/16/213-the-highly-sensitive-person-with-ted-zeff/ All the psychology you need to know and just enough to make you dangerous Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:01:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Dr. John http://www.shrinkrapradio.com/2009/07/16/213-the-highly-sensitive-person-with-ted-zeff/comment-page-1/#comment-5516 Dr. John Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:20:22 +0000 http://www.shrinkrapradio.com/?p=320#comment-5516 I wanted to use some of his new book for my parenting seminar and found the title is The Strong, Sensitive Boy -john I wanted to use some of his new book for my parenting seminar and found the title is

The Strong, Sensitive Boy

-john

]]> By: John Knight http://www.shrinkrapradio.com/2009/07/16/213-the-highly-sensitive-person-with-ted-zeff/comment-page-1/#comment-5167 John Knight Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:03:15 +0000 http://www.shrinkrapradio.com/?p=320#comment-5167 While I like rock climbing, certain kinds of heavy metal, fast cars, and play the drums (really fast stuff too)... I have to block out all visual and auditory stimulus to get to sleep, my mind just gets frazzled and I get very aggressive when people eat with their mouth open, and I cannot be around indiscreet people for long periods of time. I can stand the company of my mother easily enough, but my father always feels a need to announce his presence and draw attention to himself (in ways that would offend my Japanese friends), and I can't deal with it for long, and have to close the door to my room when he's around. I scored 15 out of 20 for the HSP test, so I guess I qualify (I feel I do anyway)! ;) But something I noticed about tastes and pursuits I have that seem atypical to the HSP, is that there are certain groups within these areas that buck the trend. For instance, with heavy metal, I only really like groups that seem to be made of introverts and have a sense of dynamics - not just screaming. As far as drumming goes, I actually find rock drumming to be "too noisy", which seems ironic as I play metal drums a lot. However, of every true metal head I've met (not posers with bad boy images), every one of them was polite and sensitive. And with rock climbing, I've found that the people who are genuinely successful at the sport, and looked up to, all have a quiet discipline that can be likened to the type of people in spiritual martial art disciplines in the East. The more of a Football play meathead you are, the worse the rock climber.... While I like rock climbing, certain kinds of heavy metal, fast cars, and play the drums (really fast stuff too)… I have to block out all visual and auditory stimulus to get to sleep, my mind just gets frazzled and I get very aggressive when people eat with their mouth open, and I cannot be around indiscreet people for long periods of time. I can stand the company of my mother easily enough, but my father always feels a need to announce his presence and draw attention to himself (in ways that would offend my Japanese friends), and I can’t deal with it for long, and have to close the door to my room when he’s around.

I scored 15 out of 20 for the HSP test, so I guess I qualify (I feel I do anyway)! ;) But something I noticed about tastes and pursuits I have that seem atypical to the HSP, is that there are certain groups within these areas that buck the trend. For instance, with heavy metal, I only really like groups that seem to be made of introverts and have a sense of dynamics – not just screaming. As far as drumming goes, I actually find rock drumming to be “too noisy”, which seems ironic as I play metal drums a lot. However, of every true metal head I’ve met (not posers with bad boy images), every one of them was polite and sensitive. And with rock climbing, I’ve found that the people who are genuinely successful at the sport, and looked up to, all have a quiet discipline that can be likened to the type of people in spiritual martial art disciplines in the East. The more of a Football play meathead you are, the worse the rock climber….

]]> By: shrink http://www.shrinkrapradio.com/2009/07/16/213-the-highly-sensitive-person-with-ted-zeff/comment-page-1/#comment-3640 shrink Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:46:17 +0000 http://www.shrinkrapradio.com/?p=320#comment-3640 Yes, certainly! Sorry about that! :-) Here it is: http://www.psyli.fi/podcast Yes, certainly! Sorry about that! :-) Here it is:

http://www.psyli.fi/podcast

]]> By: Jari Vanha-Eskola http://www.shrinkrapradio.com/2009/07/16/213-the-highly-sensitive-person-with-ted-zeff/comment-page-1/#comment-3638 Jari Vanha-Eskola Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:32:30 +0000 http://www.shrinkrapradio.com/?p=320#comment-3638 Could you please provide a link to the Finnish psy podcast you mention at the end of you podcast? You did not provide enough information for me to find it with Google or iTunes. Could you please provide a link to the Finnish psy podcast you mention at the end of you podcast? You did not provide enough information for me to find it with Google or iTunes.

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