Anxious Sensory Overload & Overwhelm | EP 290

The Anxious Truth - A Panic, Anxiety, and Mental Health Podcast

Drew Linsalata

Anxiety Attacks, Anxiety, Anxiety Disorders, Health Anxiety, Agoraphobia, Anxiety Help, Panic Attacks, Health & Fitness, Panic Attack, Ocd, Mental Health

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

People struggling with chronic or disordered states of anxiety often find themselves in a situation where they are hyper aware and therefore overwhelmed by sensory input. Non-anxious humans are so oblivious to what we sense that we sometimes pay to have people tell us to notice what our eyes, ears, noses, and skin are sending and perceiving. But for anxious people dealing with chronic or disordered forms of anxiety, this is not a problem at all. We have the opposite issue. We are const...

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0:00.0	This week on the anxious truth we're talking about anxious sensory overload and how we might explain that through the lens of fear-driven hyper-awareness so let's get to it.
0:13.2	Hello everybody,
0:25.7	everybody, welcome back to the anxious truth this is episode number 290 of the podcast we are recording in April of 2024 for those of you who are
0:31.1	watching or listening from the future.
0:33.0	I am Drew Lin Salata, creator and host of the Anxious Truth.
0:36.0	I am a therapist in training as of this date,
0:39.0	specializing in anxiety and anxiety disorders, practicing in the state of New York.
0:44.0	I am a three-time author on the subject of anxiety and anxiety disorders and anxiety recovery.
0:48.9	I am a psycho-educator, an advocate, and a former sufferer of anxiety and anxiety disorders for many years of my life on and off.
0:56.0	If you are new to the anxious truth, you just stumbled upon the podcast or the YouTube channel today.
1:01.0	Welcome. I'm glad that you're here and I hope that you find
1:03.6	the content helpful or useful in some way and of course if you are a returning
1:07.6	listener or viewer. Welcome back. Thank you for spending some time with me on
1:11.4	a Wednesday morning as we have done for many years
1:14.4	together now. This week we're going to talk about sensory overload. If you spend any kind of time
1:19.5	in a community full of people who are dealing with chronic or disordered anxiety.
1:23.4	It's too much.
1:24.5	The lights were too bright.
1:25.5	There were too many sounds, sensory overload.
1:27.6	It's a thing.
1:28.3	We talked about it all the time, and I hear about it all the time
1:30.6	from you guys.
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