My worst triggers are sound. I feel like I have a small bar that gets filled very quickly. Repetitive sounds are bad, loud continuous noise is bad, sudden loud noises like my kids screaming in the car with loud music with a repetitive beat and all of a sudden I'm screaming at everyone and I feel like a frayed nerve. The one noise I've had the worst issue with since I was a kid has been metal. Metal on Metal, metal on glass, metal on teeth, the tiniest scrap and I'm screaming and holding my head and covering my teeth with my tongue. If I have to do the dishes I have to keep my teeth covered with my tongue the whole time. I get overloaded with touch very easily. It feels like I'm being burned. It gets worse as it goes on and it's hard because people really don't like when you ask them not to touch you. They get offended and ALWAYS take it personally. My visual triggers fill that bar pretty quickly too. Same thing, repetition. My kid dancing in my perephrial, leg bouncing, tapping even if it make a noise. I discovered just tonight that it was very likely I have some kind of sensory issues. I connected only recently that I have an issue with just about all my senses when I previously just thought I was a big baby about sound and joined a misophonia group and then realized I have visual and touch and taste AND smell related sensitivity. It's been really hard because everyone in my life just thinks I get annoyed easily and they blow it off and get impatient with me.
Courtney Thompson I thought it was just me. I’ve ALWAYS had to cover my teeth with weird sounds or textures, and metal is the WORST! When I ask people to stop scraping they do it more. I just discovered that it has a name, and it’s so comforting to find others who feel the same.
I have ADHD and sensory issues. My worst one is definitely sound since most of my other triggers I have either outgrown or can get around (ex. touching mixed soggy food, tight/scratchy clothes, being put in a car seat, vanilla air fresheners, etc.). Sound is so much more of a problem for me that often I'll just say I'm "noise sensitive" and not even explain my other sensory issues to people. Sometimes it really really sucks because it feels like I can't be normal. Take two nights ago as an example. One of my friends was having a birthday party and I agreed to go. I have been to a few college parties and they are definitely hard, but I figured I could probably do it. Usually, I go in with a plan to hang with my friends and dip into the backroom or outside if it gets too loud. But I was kind of mad at the closest friends I knew there so I was already emotionally overwhelmed and I got there after all of them. I walked into a room with flashing lights that made my eyes sting, loud overlapping conversations that pounded my head, loud music piercing my ears, and random screams of joy that felt more like slaps in the face. I got a cup of water and tried to take the stimulus in. The small talk people were making felt confusing and like too much to try. I knew people there, but they were all preoccupied and I could barely hear anyone over the noise of anything else anyway. At first, I thought I was doing a good job just taking it in and blending to the background, but eight people asking if I was okay later, I realized I probably wasn't doing as great a job as I thought. It peaked right after midnight when everyone started screeching the lyrics to some song. I'm not sure what it was because it felt like my lungs were going to collapse. I don't know how anyone could stay in that room, but I made a b-line for the door. I sat outside and immediately felt a bunch better. I was waiting for it to eventually quiet down enough for me to go back inside. It was clear to everyone that I was uncomfortable, but I also left without saying anything to anyone and didn't have service at the party. 20 min later a few people I knew came out to leave and asked me how long I had been sitting there. When I said 20min they told me they weren't going to let me just sit in the cold so I had to go back inside or leave with them. I honestly just wanted to wait there for it to quiet down (even if it took a few hours). I am very aware that doesn't make sense, but I really didn't want to just leave. I was really overwhelmed and afraid that people would be mad at me for leaving (which they probably wouldn't have because they all know I have sensory issues) as well as really wishing I could just be normal and enjoy the party. I don't know, I thought if I tried hard enough I could at least look normal enough, but I can't. So since I was physically incapable of going back into that room, I left. I spent most of the next day overwhelmed. I would have had a faster recovery if I wasn't emotionally, socially, and sensory overwhelmed, but at last, I found myself screaming at the radiator to "shut the fuck up" and having difficulty crossing the street because I couldn't cope with the car sounds. I had a mild shut down reaction in that case, but it is also common for me to have panic attacks and flounder, desperately try to leave even if it involves walking miles home, shutting down more severely to the degree that any decision makes me want to scream and I have difficulty talking, as well as running and hiding. I would say my most common response is like the one I had there or a panic attack. So the moral of the story is no more loud parties for me :(
Thanks for your video, I'm spending today recovering from a sensory meltdown that I had last night. I feel for me, there's 2 things I notice before a meltdown. 1 - If I have no place of escape then I'm so much more likely to have a meltdown than if I'm in the same situation but feel as though I can't leave if I need to. So I always try to incorporate a place of refuge around my day. 2- My stimming becomes much more intense before a meltdown. This helps me recognise when I need to go and find some quiet space. I also find when I'm mentally unwell or under stress my ability to cope with my senses reduces dramatically.
I thank you for this video 💓 Growing up, my mother did not have me diagnosed. She may been unaware of the reality of my problems but instead she yelled at me all the time, force cut my hair, forced me to be normal, mentally and emotionally abused me, while dad physically did. It wasn't until my teens years that I myself noticed there was anything wrong and I tried to overcome a lot of it on my own without knowing what's wrong. I self medicated and self harmed and I now struggle with having this constant urge to be like everyone and it has forced me to rollercoaster between anxiety and depression rapidly everyday and all day. I say this now, be understanding to your children and attentive to what your child needs, which may mean you need to educate yourself as well as your child on the struggles your child has because forcing them to do things they can't can lead to more problems in the future.
Omg I thought I was alone... I was 19 when I finally learned the name of this disorder, but prior I was seen as a weird kid. I thought I was crazy and others thought that too, that I had to 'get it together'. Sounds, visual triggers, and the big one: Touch. I used to cry 'it hurts it hurts' as a child but my mother couldn't even hug me or comfort me. I had to fight my own battle and I felt so alone. The doctor said I was his first patient and couldn't even help. I've never met a person like me before, but I'm glad I'm not alone..
I had meltdowns when I was a child but that was back in the 1950s so no one knew what was happening. I was told to stop crying when I had an episode in 4th grade. I never cried again in front of anyone. I cried in the shower and I pretty much became a loner. I still cry but always by myself. I wish people had known more about this when I was growing up. I would have been a more confident person.
Hi Mary, I hope that this information can help you to accept yourself, to heal, adapt, and to become the confident person that has been waiting inside of you! 💖🥰 I have the ‘opposite problem’ in that as soon as I’m overwhelmed I get tears in my eyes, I haven’t yet found a way yet to stop the tears(don’t know that I even ‘should’) and it’s very embarrassing to be viewed as an emotional wreck. It’s also quite annoying when you’re super angry but crying lol 😝
I never ever thought that fluorescent lights and everyday sounds can affect me adversely. When you first mentioned it in some of your videos I started to experiment with blocking various sensory inputs in my environment. It has made so significant difference in my life. Before watching your videos I had accidentally realised these things on one or two occasions in the past but I rubbished them. I didn't want to be different. Thank you for making these videos available on YT.
I’m so grateful I found this video. I feel so relieved beyond believe that I’m not just crazy and that the incredibly awful uncomfortable feeling I feel inside in certain overstimulating situations are real. I really feel so stupid and out of control of myself after these episodes happen. I feel like I should be able to stop it and I can’t. That’s a scary feeling. Thank you so much for having this resource. I’m hopeful and excited about learning how to fix this.
This is why I’m sitting outside in the dark. My whole apartment complex is section 8 and it’s pretty bad a lot of the times. I finally had enough, left the house with my pillow and blanket and screamed out loud 2 times and basically went crazy. I have my headphones and and noise canceling headphones. It really is out of my control and no one gets that. It’s frustrating. 🤷♀️
what about sensory triggers and anxiety?? for me I have a hard time understanding does the anxiety come first and cause sensory triggers to become more apparent? or do the sensory triggers cause anxiety and those physical symptoms of an oncoming panic attack.....it's like the chicken and the egg do I target the anxiety first or the SPD first and I'm sure the answer is both...but HOW??
Hon, take it from someone who lives in the most extreme version of this visual transcendence. So much damage to the part of my brain that interprets vision, recognition, interpretation of visual and audio input. So.... basically I no longer live in the world everyone else recognizes as really. Yet in must still maneuver through the one I interact w physically trying to move past the b reality I now live in mentally, visually, socially, neurologically..... I wish I had just one person here to relate to my SPD, ADHD, PTSD, synesthesia, visual auras which lead to seizures... but I can't find anyone who lives in the state of reality I now inhabit since 2001.
The trigger depends on the context. Fir example take a child who doesn't have any abstract thiking..if he has sensory issues...and they got triggered..he gets hyper arroused...that's the limbic system fired up and he's physically stressed. In this case sensory triggers came first...however..the state of having SPD means the person is rarely in a normal state..he's bouncing from an extreme to another..which is the definition of chronic anxiety. But even if someone has only few senses affected...for example we talk Abt an adult...someone who have a self narrative. And he developed a routine to protect himself from this constant anxietyy caused by the lack of regulatory autonomic system...let's say he is now in the good state..where he managed to be somewhere between the two extremes.... anxiety will kick in as soon as the person have any negative thought....unlike a typical person who can can somehow control their attention away from the trigger...SPD ppl can't easily do that..because the disorder by default have an inherently discriminatory feature where the brain stem ties their attention to the problematic stimulus..so in the case of that adult...a negative thought Abt the future .. triggers a fear response..that fear has an exaggerated effect on the amygdala..the amygdala not only becomes active to prepare for fight or flight..in the SPD person..the amygdala directs the attention not on planning to react..it has a problem orienting the attention on another sense.. depending on which senses are hypersensitive in that context in this person..and the final step in processing ..that is taking reaction...also disturbed by the disorder...will be extreme ...that is a meltdown.. shutdown..or burnout..... So as u can see...what comes first...it can be external...or internal (thought) but in both cases ..the effect is a cascading sensory spiral. Also..one more thing I think I have heard from this channel or a reasearch..but that is....if you have a sensory sensitivity... It becomes extremely aggravated whenever you experience anxiety... and the opposite also is true...meaning ..if you experience randomly any over arrousall from any sensory input...u immediately go into anxiety...sadly..the anxiety.. aggravates the sensory sensitivities...sensory sensitivies triggered...they result in more general anxiety..which leads to more Sensitivity...and so on..a vicious loop of one casing the other ..and the other aggravates the former...and a never ending loop... because the sensory circuits are all altered and are in direct back and forth with the whole limbic system...this one is basically the home for your attention..arrousal..fear.. motivation.. and memory ... So whichever one triggered the other...it's that aggravating loop that becomes overtime a secondary diagnosis of depression and anxiety.
I’ve always hid in my room after company comes it was getting to be much but I’ve learned to some what be comfortable with it but noise and touch mostly touch can be a problem it’s like I’m happy to see the company but at the same time happy to see them so I can comeback from it
I work at a day care/kindergarten, and I feel i have problems with high sounds and bright light. I also use nicotine, when I've tried to stop, my senses get sharpened 10 fold and I'm having difficulty focusing on anything.
Hello I just found this channel, very good information .. is it possible to train the brain to control sensory sensitivity by training with neuroplasticity therapy? I know it's used for other disorders
Hi I work with ppl with Autism and bunch participants has behavioural issues , for example , snapping at some one's face, smelling own poo , pretty stubbron to join any activity. can you help me in this regard ?
i have had many massive brain surgeries and damage in my occipital lobe, i suffer from seizures, migraines, aphasia, agnosia, synsestesia, SPD, ADHD, visual snow and charles bonnet syndrome.... i had a melt down today bc i couldn't find any sunglasses and i can't leave the house without any.... i hadn't even realized what i was doing.... but now being on the facebook forum for adults w spd i think i understand why i freak out inside over every sensory challenge. please help! i'm on klonipin and adderall which seems to be the best combination i've ever found for pushing past my fear but i wake up everyday and cont to hallucinate patterns and spirals and fractals and i feel absolutely useless to this world esp since they can't understand why I am freaking out. they can't see what i see everywhere all the time!
It’s been a year since you posted this comment and I truly hope that you’re doing better now. I can sometimes have double vision and it can feel scary and almost...suffocating?? Seeing patterns must be overwhelming and I hope that you have found ways to cope and adapt to it. Maybe you’re seeing the mathematical patterns of the universe?!?! 💖💖💖✨
@@JessicaDarling2 i am absolutely convinced I am watching the very fabric of the universe move and manifest from waves, colors and what appear to be infinite tiny dots moving in random unification. Steered by incredible powers of intention of attention
Can sensory meltdowns be caused by stress? I have sensory meltdowns and they have been out of control for a few weeks especially since this around the time my mom had passed away
Does this overlap with bipolar disorder? Melt downs..........can we call these black out rage attacks? I can recall something that has triggered me in the past and get just as upset as when it happened, extremely animated, adrenaline rush feeling just like i was standing in that spot right now.
thank you for speaking softly
I had the opposite reaction. At 3 minutes I had to turn this off because there is not enough volume. I can't hear a thing they are saying.
My worst triggers are sound. I feel like I have a small bar that gets filled very quickly. Repetitive sounds are bad, loud continuous noise is bad, sudden loud noises like my kids screaming in the car with loud music with a repetitive beat and all of a sudden I'm screaming at everyone and I feel like a frayed nerve. The one noise I've had the worst issue with since I was a kid has been metal. Metal on Metal, metal on glass, metal on teeth, the tiniest scrap and I'm screaming and holding my head and covering my teeth with my tongue. If I have to do the dishes I have to keep my teeth covered with my tongue the whole time.
I get overloaded with touch very easily. It feels like I'm being burned. It gets worse as it goes on and it's hard because people really don't like when you ask them not to touch you. They get offended and ALWAYS take it personally.
My visual triggers fill that bar pretty quickly too. Same thing, repetition. My kid dancing in my perephrial, leg bouncing, tapping even if it make a noise.
I discovered just tonight that it was very likely I have some kind of sensory issues. I connected only recently that I have an issue with just about all my senses when I previously just thought I was a big baby about sound and joined a misophonia group and then realized I have visual and touch and taste AND smell related sensitivity. It's been really hard because everyone in my life just thinks I get annoyed easily and they blow it off and get impatient with me.
Courtney Thompson I thought it was just me. I’ve ALWAYS had to cover my teeth with weird sounds or textures, and metal is the WORST! When I ask people to stop scraping they do it more. I just discovered that it has a name, and it’s so comforting to find others who feel the same.
Same here. For me, loud sound it torture.
This exactly! 😢🤷♀️
I have ADHD and sensory issues. My worst one is definitely sound since most of my other triggers I have either outgrown or can get around (ex. touching mixed soggy food, tight/scratchy clothes, being put in a car seat, vanilla air fresheners, etc.). Sound is so much more of a problem for me that often I'll just say I'm "noise sensitive" and not even explain my other sensory issues to people. Sometimes it really really sucks because it feels like I can't be normal. Take two nights ago as an example.
One of my friends was having a birthday party and I agreed to go. I have been to a few college parties and they are definitely hard, but I figured I could probably do it. Usually, I go in with a plan to hang with my friends and dip into the backroom or outside if it gets too loud. But I was kind of mad at the closest friends I knew there so I was already emotionally overwhelmed and I got there after all of them. I walked into a room with flashing lights that made my eyes sting, loud overlapping conversations that pounded my head, loud music piercing my ears, and random screams of joy that felt more like slaps in the face. I got a cup of water and tried to take the stimulus in. The small talk people were making felt confusing and like too much to try. I knew people there, but they were all preoccupied and I could barely hear anyone over the noise of anything else anyway. At first, I thought I was doing a good job just taking it in and blending to the background, but eight people asking if I was okay later, I realized I probably wasn't doing as great a job as I thought.
It peaked right after midnight when everyone started screeching the lyrics to some song. I'm not sure what it was because it felt like my lungs were going to collapse. I don't know how anyone could stay in that room, but I made a b-line for the door. I sat outside and immediately felt a bunch better. I was waiting for it to eventually quiet down enough for me to go back inside. It was clear to everyone that I was uncomfortable, but I also left without saying anything to anyone and didn't have service at the party. 20 min later a few people I knew came out to leave and asked me how long I had been sitting there. When I said 20min they told me they weren't going to let me just sit in the cold so I had to go back inside or leave with them. I honestly just wanted to wait there for it to quiet down (even if it took a few hours). I am very aware that doesn't make sense, but I really didn't want to just leave. I was really overwhelmed and afraid that people would be mad at me for leaving (which they probably wouldn't have because they all know I have sensory issues) as well as really wishing I could just be normal and enjoy the party. I don't know, I thought if I tried hard enough I could at least look normal enough, but I can't. So since I was physically incapable of going back into that room, I left.
I spent most of the next day overwhelmed. I would have had a faster recovery if I wasn't emotionally, socially, and sensory overwhelmed, but at last, I found myself screaming at the radiator to "shut the fuck up" and having difficulty crossing the street because I couldn't cope with the car sounds. I had a mild shut down reaction in that case, but it is also common for me to have panic attacks and flounder, desperately try to leave even if it involves walking miles home, shutting down more severely to the degree that any decision makes me want to scream and I have difficulty talking, as well as running and hiding. I would say my most common response is like the one I had there or a panic attack.
So the moral of the story is no more loud parties for me :(
Thanks for your video, I'm spending today recovering from a sensory meltdown that I had last night. I feel for me, there's 2 things I notice before a meltdown.
1 - If I have no place of escape then I'm so much more likely to have a meltdown than if I'm in the same situation but feel as though I can't leave if I need to. So I always try to incorporate a place of refuge around my day.
2- My stimming becomes much more intense before a meltdown. This helps me recognise when I need to go and find some quiet space.
I also find when I'm mentally unwell or under stress my ability to cope with my senses reduces dramatically.
Gecko Time This happens to me, too!
Love this. I'm the same with the stimming thing x
I thank you for this video 💓
Growing up, my mother did not have me diagnosed. She may been unaware of the reality of my problems but instead she yelled at me all the time, force cut my hair, forced me to be normal, mentally and emotionally abused me, while dad physically did. It wasn't until my teens years that I myself noticed there was anything wrong and I tried to overcome a lot of it on my own without knowing what's wrong. I self medicated and self harmed and I now struggle with having this constant urge to be like everyone and it has forced me to rollercoaster between anxiety and depression rapidly everyday and all day. I say this now, be understanding to your children and attentive to what your child needs, which may mean you need to educate yourself as well as your child on the struggles your child has because forcing them to do things they can't can lead to more problems in the future.
wish u wellness ❤ Please try to get therapy it really works 🙏🏻
@@AASA76 recently started that journey
Omg I thought I was alone... I was 19 when I finally learned the name of this disorder, but prior I was seen as a weird kid. I thought I was crazy and others thought that too, that I had to 'get it together'. Sounds, visual triggers, and the big one: Touch. I used to cry 'it hurts it hurts' as a child but my mother couldn't even hug me or comfort me. I had to fight my own battle and I felt so alone. The doctor said I was his first patient and couldn't even help. I've never met a person like me before, but I'm glad I'm not alone..
Thanks guys for this. I generally feel really alone with my SPD etc so things like this are very helpful 👍❤️🙏
I had meltdowns when I was a child but that was back in the 1950s so no one knew what was happening. I was told to stop crying when I had an episode in 4th grade. I never cried again in front of anyone. I cried in the shower and I pretty much became a loner. I still cry but always by myself. I wish people had known more about this when I was growing up. I would have been a more confident person.
I’m so sorry this happened to you. At least now you can recognize how it affected you and hopefully start to heal.
Hi Mary, I hope that this information can help you to accept yourself, to heal, adapt, and to become the confident person that has been waiting inside of you! 💖🥰 I have the ‘opposite problem’ in that as soon as I’m overwhelmed I get tears in my eyes, I haven’t yet found a way yet to stop the tears(don’t know that I even ‘should’) and it’s very embarrassing to be viewed as an emotional wreck. It’s also quite annoying when you’re super angry but crying lol 😝
I never ever thought that fluorescent lights and everyday sounds can affect me adversely. When you first mentioned it in some of your videos I started to experiment with blocking various sensory inputs in my environment. It has made so significant difference in my life. Before watching your videos I had accidentally realised these things on one or two occasions in the past but I rubbished them. I didn't want to be different. Thank you for making these videos available on YT.
I’m so grateful I found this video. I feel so relieved beyond believe that I’m not just crazy and that the incredibly awful uncomfortable feeling I feel inside in certain overstimulating situations are real. I really feel so stupid and out of control of myself after these episodes happen. I feel like I should be able to stop it and I can’t. That’s a scary feeling. Thank you so much for having this resource. I’m hopeful and excited about learning how to fix this.
This is why I’m sitting outside in the dark. My whole apartment complex is section 8 and it’s pretty bad a lot of the times. I finally had enough, left the house with my pillow and blanket and screamed out loud 2 times and basically went crazy. I have my headphones and and noise canceling headphones. It really is out of my control and no one gets that. It’s frustrating. 🤷♀️
I’m so sorry you have to deal with that.
Can you please do a video about SPD and puberty (in a girl specifically)?
what about sensory triggers and anxiety?? for me I have a hard time understanding does the anxiety come first and cause sensory triggers to become more apparent? or do the sensory triggers cause anxiety and those physical symptoms of an oncoming panic attack.....it's like the chicken and the egg do I target the anxiety first or the SPD first and I'm sure the answer is both...but HOW??
Hon, take it from someone who lives in the most extreme version of this visual transcendence. So much damage to the part of my brain that interprets vision, recognition, interpretation of visual and audio input. So.... basically I no longer live in the world everyone else recognizes as really. Yet in must still maneuver through the one I interact w physically trying to move past the b reality I now live in mentally, visually, socially, neurologically..... I wish I had just one person here to relate to my SPD, ADHD, PTSD, synesthesia, visual auras which lead to seizures... but I can't find anyone who lives in the state of reality I now inhabit since 2001.
The trigger depends on the context. Fir example take a child who doesn't have any abstract thiking..if he has sensory issues...and they got triggered..he gets hyper arroused...that's the limbic system fired up and he's physically stressed. In this case sensory triggers came first...however..the state of having SPD means the person is rarely in a normal state..he's bouncing from an extreme to another..which is the definition of chronic anxiety. But even if someone has only few senses affected...for example we talk Abt an adult...someone who have a self narrative. And he developed a routine to protect himself from this constant anxietyy caused by the lack of regulatory autonomic system...let's say he is now in the good state..where he managed to be somewhere between the two extremes.... anxiety will kick in as soon as the person have any negative thought....unlike a typical person who can can somehow control their attention away from the trigger...SPD ppl can't easily do that..because the disorder by default have an inherently discriminatory feature where the brain stem ties their attention to the problematic stimulus..so in the case of that adult...a negative thought Abt the future .. triggers a fear response..that fear has an exaggerated effect on the amygdala..the amygdala not only becomes active to prepare for fight or flight..in the SPD person..the amygdala directs the attention not on planning to react..it has a problem orienting the attention on another sense.. depending on which senses are hypersensitive in that context in this person..and the final step in processing ..that is taking reaction...also disturbed by the disorder...will be extreme ...that is a meltdown.. shutdown..or burnout.....
So as u can see...what comes first...it can be external...or internal (thought) but in both cases ..the effect is a cascading sensory spiral.
Also..one more thing I think I have heard from this channel or a reasearch..but that is....if you have a sensory sensitivity...
It becomes extremely aggravated whenever you experience anxiety... and the opposite also is true...meaning ..if you experience randomly any over arrousall from any sensory input...u immediately go into anxiety...sadly..the anxiety.. aggravates the sensory sensitivities...sensory sensitivies triggered...they result in more general anxiety..which leads to more Sensitivity...and so on..a vicious loop of one casing the other ..and the other aggravates the former...and a never ending loop... because the sensory circuits are all altered and are in direct back and forth with the whole limbic system...this one is basically the home for your attention..arrousal..fear.. motivation.. and memory ...
So whichever one triggered the other...it's that aggravating loop that becomes overtime a secondary diagnosis of depression and anxiety.
This describes me to a tee... very limited calming techniques and they are all very complicated to set up..
I’ve always hid in my room after company comes it was getting to be much but I’ve learned to some what be comfortable with it but noise and touch mostly touch can be a problem it’s like I’m happy to see the company but at the same time happy to see them so I can comeback from it
I work at a day care/kindergarten, and I feel i have problems with high sounds and bright light. I also use nicotine, when I've tried to stop, my senses get sharpened 10 fold and I'm having difficulty focusing on anything.
Hello I just found this channel, very good information .. is it possible to train the brain to control sensory sensitivity by training with neuroplasticity therapy? I know it's used for other disorders
Hi I work with ppl with Autism and bunch participants has behavioural issues , for example , snapping at some one's face, smelling own poo , pretty stubbron to join any activity. can you help me in this regard ?
i have had many massive brain surgeries and damage in my occipital lobe, i suffer from seizures, migraines, aphasia, agnosia, synsestesia, SPD, ADHD, visual snow and charles bonnet syndrome.... i had a melt down today bc i couldn't find any sunglasses and i can't leave the house without any.... i hadn't even realized what i was doing.... but now being on the facebook forum for adults w spd i think i understand why i freak out inside over every sensory challenge. please help! i'm on klonipin and adderall which seems to be the best combination i've ever found for pushing past my fear but i wake up everyday and cont to hallucinate patterns and spirals and fractals and i feel absolutely useless to this world esp since they can't understand why I am freaking out. they can't see what i see everywhere all the time!
It’s been a year since you posted this comment and I truly hope that you’re doing better now. I can sometimes have double vision and it can feel scary and almost...suffocating?? Seeing patterns must be overwhelming and I hope that you have found ways to cope and adapt to it. Maybe you’re seeing the mathematical patterns of the universe?!?! 💖💖💖✨
@@JessicaDarling2 i am absolutely convinced I am watching the very fabric of the universe move and manifest from waves, colors and what appear to be infinite tiny dots moving in random unification. Steered by incredible powers of intention of attention
I’m sorry you go through all this, but unless you are autistic. You don’t know what’s it’s like having a meltdown.
Sensory overload yes.
@@lozj2900 maybe true maybe not. Haven't been tested for autism but others have asked if I am.
@@JessicaDarling2 you are a kind and soft light. Thank you for shining it my way. It gets lonely. I hope your reality is treating you fairly right now
Thank you
So recently I have been suffering with my sensory really bad i’ve only this Last year I’m coming up to my final weeks of school
anxiety
I couldn't find the link to the adults group 😢
Can sensory meltdowns be caused by stress? I have sensory meltdowns and they have been out of control for a few weeks especially since this around the time my mom had passed away
Just a tip. One would fight off a predator, not prey.
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Does this overlap with bipolar disorder? Melt downs..........can we call these black out rage attacks? I can recall something that has triggered me in the past and get just as upset as when it happened, extremely animated, adrenaline rush feeling just like i was standing in that spot right now.
I'm wondering this as well.
I have BPD and see a massive overlap in symptoms too.
Unless your autistic, you don’t experience meltdowns.
@@lozj2900 i have aspergers.
@@lozj2900 Untrue. Those with adhd have meltdowns as well, and you can have spd without autism or adhd.
What do you think 💬🤔🤔😂🤔😂🤔🤔😂🤔🤔😂🤔