▲ 9 r/hsp

Why do we crave super close connections?

so close that we end up pushing people away... even i recognize that it's like i want to be too close... we have to have more self-confidence or validation, maybe?

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u/Potential_Dish_4115 — 10 hours ago

Do you sanitize the yogurt maker itself?

I understand sanitizing the utensils etc in a pot of boiling water, but how do you put a whole yogurt maker in boiling water... or do you need to...?

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u/Potential_Dish_4115 — 11 hours ago

Does the first batch ever work out?

I see lots of people say the first batch doesn't work so well so they start eating it only from the second batch. Does it ever work the firs ttime? And when it doesn't, is it sually safe to eat the first time, just maybe not as tasty or easy to eat?

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u/Potential_Dish_4115 — 10 days ago
▲ 46 r/hsp

True Anxiety Is Your Superpower

Studies of primates show that some members of the tribe are more anxious than others.  These are the ones that tend to hang back, gathering at the peripheries of the main group.

In the 1980s, the late zoologist Dian Fossey decided to remove these more sensitive members of one group of chimpanzees to see how it would affect the rest of the community.

Six months later, all the chimps were dead.

"It was suggested that the anxious chimps were pivotal for survival," Sarah Wilson writes compellingly of this experiment in her book First, We Make The Beast Beautiful.

"Outsiders, they were the ones who were sleeping in the trees, on the edge, on the border, on the boundary of the community.  Hypersensitive and vigilant, the smallest noise freaked them out and disturbed them, so they were awake much of the night anyway."

We label such symptoms anxiety, but back when we were in trees, they were the early-warning system for the troop.

They were the first to scream, "Look out!  Look out!"  

Similarly, if you are one of the more attuned, anxious members of the human race - if you're nervous system is dialed a little higher than others - the tribe owes you support and gratitude, because in important ways your anxiety exists to protect us all.

Instead of telling the anxious among us to "stop being so sensitive," we should honor what they say.  The more everyone of us embraces our true anxiety, the more valuable we are to the world.

True anxiety does not just guide us on our own path, it assigns us a larger mission.  Our true anxiety can place us on the front lines, alerting others to threats that may be just out of view.  And the collective view of true anxiety shepherds us in the right direction as a society.

from the book Anatomy of Anxiety by Dr. Ellen Vora - p. 38

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u/Potential_Dish_4115 — 10 days ago
▲ 12 r/NDE

Which testimonies seem the most genuine?

Sometimes in the description of a video there will be a link to someone selling something... if it's just a book or something detailing their experience I suppose that can still be genuine...

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u/Potential_Dish_4115 — 10 days ago
▲ 7 r/hsp

Is anybody else claustrophobic / doesn't like elevators?

I think it's because I know my body is sensitive and if it got stuck I'd have no way to get comfortable

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u/Potential_Dish_4115 — 11 days ago

Contamination and/or die-off effects?

How serious is it if you eat yogurt that is contaminated? Is it easy to tell if it is...

And how common / how bad are die-off effects...

Just some things I'm thinking about

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u/Potential_Dish_4115 — 12 days ago
▲ 19 r/hsp

Does anyone else take a while to say their thoughts?

Like literally in a conversation, it takes me a minute to come up with what I want to say? By then, everyone has moved on... even with my partner, I'm very scared when he's in a bad mood...

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u/Potential_Dish_4115 — 13 days ago
▲ 0 r/SIBO

Has anyone seen improvement in pancreatic elastase numbers after eating SuperGut Yogurt?

There's some differences of opinion online as to whether SIBO causes low pancreatic enzymes or the other way around... I tend to think it's SIBO causing low enzymes, so want to treat it using SuperGut Yogurt. Not sure if that would be enough to get my very low enzyme numbers up (currently 12 out of a 200-400 ideal range!).

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u/Potential_Dish_4115 — 14 days ago

My pancreatic elastase is 12. 12! Out of a 200-400 ideal range. What could some of the reasons be?

So far I read stress and past use of antibiotics.

I've been prescribed Creon. Does Creon help my pancreas start making its own enzymes? And can I stop taking Creon at anytime? (I realize some of my symptoms such as belching may come back... but just in general is it safe to stop...)

I believe I have SIBO as well
Thank you

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u/Potential_Dish_4115 — 15 days ago
▲ 15 r/hsp

Does anyone else on one hand wish their parents had understood them better but at the same time love their parents so much?

How could most parents have known exactly how to deal with people with extra sensitivity?

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u/Potential_Dish_4115 — 16 days ago
▲ 7 r/hsp

Curious if any HSPs with good parents still developed anxious attachment?

Maybe it was more our sensitive nature than the parenting (for those of us who had good or good enough parents...)

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u/Potential_Dish_4115 — 17 days ago