I’m extremely sensitive to sounds and noise. I’f I’m somewhere in public, and I am not distracting myself (either with music or by talking to myself), I start hearing everything. I hear every little detail; every voice, every footstep, every turning page. It all jumbles up and turns in to a high pitched screech in my head, that doesn’t stop until I leave the area and go somewhere secluded. I’ve passed out from this five times. It physically hurts me, I get migraines and I become extremely dizzy. It’s been so bad that a year ago, I had to start taking online classes because I couldn’t be in a classroom environment.
I’ve isolated myself from my friends, my family, from everyone.
My psychiatrist doesn’t even know what to tell me. I’ve been to multiple different doctors, no one seems to know what’s wrong with me.
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Asperger’s syndrome, sounds like. Or some acute auditory processing disorder. I get the same way from ADHD – shopping at the grocery store is hell.
I have ADD, but this feels much different.
I used to think it was my ocd, but it’s such a strange feeling. I’ve never felt actual physical pain like that from anxiety,
ADHD causes distractability – it forces you to spend an inordinate amount of time processing incoming sensory data, in some cases. That’s also one of the issues with Asperger’s, and it’s less common with ADHD, but no-less contained within that disorder. Sensory processing issues are typical in that spectrum.
I don’t know… I was told it wasn’t Aspergers by my psychiatrist, but she doesn’t seem to have any idea what this is.
She calls it paranoia, but it’s honestly horrible.. It feels like walls closing in on me.
i’ve had this problem i cant go to work anymore or the customers will freak, it can be solved you just have to think of it as a gift i hate having it because i can’t think straight i have to day dream in school but it’s cool i think at the same time.