Trailer: Introducing The Highly Sensitive MD Podcast

In Part 1 of this episode I share some of my own journey as a highly sensitive person and a few anecdotes and recurring themes:early signs of high sensory processing sensitivityoverwhelm from highly stimulating environments (including college)my 30 year quest for external validation and how medical education encouraged itimposter syndrome and why I was resisted letting it goContact:Email: [email protected]: @soniasinghMDTwitter: @soniasinghMD

In this episode we answer the following questionsWhat does it mean to be a highly sensitive person (HSP)?What are some common qualities of HSPs?How are HSPs different from introverts and empaths (and how they are similar)?What is the data that supports the existence of this trait?How is being highly sensitive relevant to burnout in medicine?What finally convinced me that I wasn't alone in my experience of burnout?Links:The Highly Sensitive Person by Dr. Elaine Aron (Book)The Highly Sensitive Person Website & QuizAcevedo BP, Aron EN, Aron A, Sangster MD, Collins N, Brown LL. The highly sensitive brain: an fMRI study of sensory processing sensitivity and response to others' emotions. Brain Behav. 2014 Jul;4(4):580-94. doi: 10.1002/brb3.242. Epub 2014 Jun 23. PMID: 25161824; PMCID: PMC4086365. [Full Text]Friederike X.R. Gerstenberg, Sensory-processing sensitivity predicts performance on a visual search task followed by an increase in perceived stress, Personality and Individual Differences, Volume 53, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 496-500, ISSN 0191-8869. [Abstract]Morning Report (NEJM, 2017) by Sonia Singh MDOpen Letter to a Burned Out Intern (Annals of Internal Medicine, 2020) by Sonia Singh MDContact:Email: [email protected]: @soniasinghMDTwitter: @soniasinghMD

This is a brief introduction to the podcast: what it's about, who it's for and why it matters.