Sensory Overload

Have you ever had situations where the noise of the world is competing so fiercely with the thoughts in your head, that you feel like you're going insane?

No? Just me?

Recently, I've had instances where I need absolute silence or I feel like I'm going to crawl out of my skin.

Let me start off with the fact that I work in a radio station, so I'm surrounded constantly by music (duh, Jessica). Most of the time, I love it. However, sometimes, the different genres do not meld well and it creates NOISE.

About a week ago, I got in my car and was just so in need of silence. I turned off the radio and just drove in silence.

Then, last night we had a concert. It was non-stop NOISE for about five hours. I couldn't get away from it.

Enter this morning.... I'm tired, I'm kind of cranky, and I'm slow.

Then, in a single instance, I got bombarded with about five different sounds at one time. So, I posted this on FB...........

Jessica feels like she's going insane...... I can hear whatever is coming out of WABC, WXYZ is playing "How Bizarre", someone is blaring Adele's "Rolling in the Deep", and then someone is laughing really, really loud. #SensoryOverload.

Only, then one of my coworkers took slight offense because she apparently was one of the people laughing. I honestly couldn't tell who it was.

Regardless..... whoops on ticking someone off.

My whole point is that sometimes it becomes too much. God gave us five senses, but sometimes they can be overloaded.

I feel deep, deep sympathy for people with SI issues/Autism/Aspergers/etc who go through this 24 hours a day.

Honestly, I don't know what my MAIN point is............. just that I need to find a quiet corner and quick.