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Overwhelmed

Lately I’ve felt as though every little sound and feeling and smell and sight is grating at my nerves and chipping away at my sanity. My clothes feel constricting and too loose and scratchy and smooth and not right My ears are full of constant ticking and ringing and noise My skin wraps my frame too tightly and I want to rip it apart and off of me but then I’d be cold and miserable It’s all too much and everything is loud and jarring and I feel frenzied and too stuck and not stuck enough and all I want to do is jump in front of a van because then everything would Just Be Quiet. Blessed and sought-after and evasively, quiet.
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Ephemeral_Oblivion
23 / F / Lost in Nowhere
Published
Jun 26, 2022
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18·122
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Sensory overload sucks.

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#overwhelmed#sensory#issues#overload#sensoryoverload
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