![]() On a physical level you can experience a beating heart, sweatiness, and dissociation (feeling out of your body). It can feel like you are being attacked by an invisible force. The very idea of anyone making you eat a certain food you don’t like makes you panic. You experience taste in a way that is much stronger than what others experience, and it can cause you emotional reactions.ĮXAMPLE: Certain tastes make you feel sick or even panicky if you can’t get the taste out of your mouth. Certain people at work smell so strongly to you that you avoid them, but others don’t seem bothered. Smells others hardly notice make you feel sick and unable to focus on anything else.ĮXAMPLE: You carefully avoid perfume sections of department stores as they make you feel nauseous, dizzy, and leave you with a headache. ![]() Someone brushing against you without permission makes your heart race, and you can’t stand people standing too close. Wearing things that are too tight leaves you feeling trapped and panicky. A crowded city street with all its ambient noise can send you into an anxiety attack.Ĭertain bodily sensations are uncomfortable for you, and/or you have a big personal space.ĮXAMPLE: Tags and itchy fabrics are like torture for you. Noises that others hardly notice seem very loud and incessant to you.ĮXAMPLE: A constant drip or a low buzzing noise from another apartment becomes all you can focus on. Or won’t go to a certain library as it is decorated in bright red and oranges that leave you feeling panicky. Sight.Ĭertain lights and colours can be too overwhelming for you.ĮXAMPLE: You get headaches and feel dizzy in shopping malls with their endless fluorescent lights. It is common in those with autism, but many people without autism also live with it. It can look like the following. Sensory overload means that one or more of your senses is receiving information at a rate that your brain struggles to handle. Often feel overwhelmed in environments that others have no issue with? But been told it’s all in your head? Sensory overload in adults is a misunderstood phenomenon that sees many struggling in silence.
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