113. Highly Sensitive People and Eating Disorders

Understanding Disordered Eating: Eating Disorder Recovery and Body Image Healing

Everybody has emotions.

This isn’t a new concept. However, in more recent years, we’ve started to give names to everything as a way to “label” each other or give an overall meaning to how someone may feel, act, etc. (Labels are usually meant to organize things, not necessarily bad.) So somewhere along the way, we started to label certain individuals as “highly sensitive people”.

Everyone is sensitive to a certain extent, but some are more sensitive than others, hence, highly sensitive. The question is, how did it come to be that somebody might be highly sensitive and the next person is just not? Why do we assume people are just born this way? Is it genetic? Is it because of their personality?

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"Sometimes it's like all thoughts and all logic completely go out the window because you're just seeing red or feeling so, so hurt and really impulsive."- Rachelle Heinemann

"You are just sensitive and having emotions like a human does. There's nothing wrong with you." - Rachelle Heinemann

"Everybody has emotions. Everybody is sensitive to a certain extent, even if you don't want to be." - Rachelle Heinemann

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