OMG, this reminds me of a recent trip to Walmart (which I try desperately to avoid) when the noise was deafening. By the time I got out of there I was totally frazzled.
The author was talking about normal, everyday background stimuli; go into an environment like what you describe and it's that much worse. I'm surprised more people don't notice that about high-background-noice situations.
Then again, with some of the things my hearing does that seem to be fibromyalgia related, sometimes too much (or the wrong kind of) background noise will not only exhaust me, but make it impossible for me to function coherently while I'm in it. (It's like I lose my ability to filter effectively the way normal people do, some days when the fibro is being weird.)
Yes, I understand completely about the Fibro making stimuli more intensive at some times than at others. I spend a great deal of time alone in my office specifically to shut out the, what Ed would call, noise pollution. My anxiety issues that are separate but also intertwined with the Fibro are what I attribute to the inability to process even normal stimuli at times.
I get really bad migraines that cause me to be very sensitive to anything touching me. But there are times when I'm not having a migraine and anything (although usually people) touching me is still experienced as painful.
I also have episodes where, because of my DID, I feel like I don't fit in my own skin. I have no idea if you experience anything like this, so as to not sound too warped in the head I'll stop now. But, I do understand and empathise.
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Then again, with some of the things my hearing does that seem to be fibromyalgia related, sometimes too much (or the wrong kind of) background noise will not only exhaust me, but make it impossible for me to function coherently while I'm in it. (It's like I lose my ability to filter effectively the way normal people do, some days when the fibro is being weird.)
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I get really bad migraines that cause me to be very sensitive to anything touching me. But there are times when I'm not having a migraine and anything (although usually people) touching me is still experienced as painful.
I also have episodes where, because of my DID, I feel like I don't fit in my own skin. I have no idea if you experience anything like this, so as to not sound too warped in the head I'll stop now. But, I do understand and empathise.