Lately, since I’ve come down on Risperdal Consta, I’ve been experiencing sensory or stimulation overload at times and it is disturbing. I feel like stimuli or objects in my environment, come rushing at me or bearing down on me from all angles and I can’t focus or keep looking at my environment. I feel that I must either look down at the ground or, better yet, close my eyes. This seems to alleviate it.
This is not claustrophobia as it only happens in either big or open spaces.
I don’t know if all this is a sign of sz or if it is organic or if it is disassociation. Maybe one of you guys experience this?
I’m going to tell my pdoc today about it and also about my decreased sleep hours and need for Klonipin to sleep.
I get this weird experience on abilify maintena. Its quite frightening so I can empathise with you. I have a pair of dark blue tinted glasses which I put on when its starts doing this. Its like everywhere is coming in, every single fine detail of everywhere I look bares down on me. And all the blackness of every detail is somehow aware of me so i cant look anywhere with out this awful hyper reality kind of association experience with every object everywhere. But the glasses help. I put them on and close my eyes and lay down. The psych gave me a name for it and supposedly its linked to high anxiety but I cant recall the name. But might be similar though ive tried benzos and they dont shift it. So im still uncertain what it is. But lowering my antipsychotic has helped. I hope you can resolve it. It might be similar but hard to tell.
I get sensory overload sometimes.
Touch and sound being the worst of the senses.
Turn on a fan behind me, and the qind on my akin combined with the buzzing is a surefire way to overload my system.
It feels like the sounds are too sharp qhen I get overloaded. Like they’re physically painful.
Touch makes me irritated and nauseous.
It’s a similar thing that happens when one had a migraine
@Zoe Also, does the world feel more dead to you in general than it did before? Like the environment is a product of your brain. The branches of the trees being your synapses?
During my last episode, cars looked like robots with hideous eyes and it was scary. So yeah I’ve experienced distorted vision but I was completely off pills.
Welcome to my entire life. It’s a feature of ASD. Exposure and response prevention therapy EX/RP has helped me cope with overstim and avoid meltdowns, or at least hold them off until I can make it somewhere private.
Right before my last psychosis, i felt something similar to this. Along with that I felt completed disconnected to people, particularly my partner. In my case, I think it was dissociation.
I didn’t tell my pdoc because it isn’t an emergency. But, I did tell my depot nurse about it and also about my Klonipin dependency. She will tell my pdoc.
Autism Spectrum Disorder. Used to be called Asperger’s, but woke people wet their panties if you try and use the label you prefer. EX/RP = Exposure and response prevention, a type of CBT. Very helpful.
