Does anyone else struggle with this daily? I feel like I spend most of the day trying to retreat into my head because of this. Loud sounds feel like I’m actually being slapped in the face. They HURT. Or sounds that aren’t loud but are gross to me or irritating. And since I live in a city they happen all the time. Smells give me headaches or make me nauseous. And there’s always too many smells around, I was just at cvs and someone was wearing way too much cologne and then today I also smelled weed and cleaner and so much crap and it made me dizzy almost.
And then there’s PAIN which I feel ALL THE TIME. Constant back pain that just really makes me irritable when I have to stand on a bus or wait on an elevator. Pain in my feet and hips and knees when I walk any walk longer than 5 mins. It is actually miserable for me to be on my feet. So there’s pain too which just adds to the way too many sensations going on all the time. I don’t like being touched at all. I don’t even like wearing my glasses around normally because the sight of everything gets overwhelming too. And seeing repetitive motion can drive me nuts.
It’s really awful! Anyone would be irritable! I don’t know why I experience this.
I’m kind of the opposite. It’s the voices that are too bothersome and I welcome distractions in the environment.
I’m sorry to hear you are in chronic pain. My dad is always in pain and he spends a lot of the day lying in bed or soaking his feet. I’m lucky I don’t have chronic pain. I’m not sure what to do about chronic pain.
Maybe you could wear earplugs at times where things are too loud.
I have no suggestions on how to fix it. I wouldn’t say I struggle with sensory overload but repetitive and distracting noises bother me at school. There is always some jack-ass tapping their fingers or clicking their pen near me when I am trying to concentrate. People whistling or singing to themselves with no music is also distracting. I don’t mind people singing to the radio because the music is there anyway. It’s just people making random noises out of nowhere for no reason. I don’t think I am hypersensitive though. I think (?) my sensitivity to this stuff is normal. Sorry you’re dealing with this.
I get sensory overload often. slightest sounds can irritate the heck out of me. or lights or whatever.
I try to just practice accepting it. just try to be one with whatever is overloading.
basically building tolerance to whatever it is that is overloading your senses