Sensory overload is when your five senses — sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste — take in more information than your brain can process. When your brain is overwhelmed by this input, it enters ...

Too much sensory input can overstimulate your brain and cause emotional distress or shutdown. Sensory overload can happen with anxiety disorders, autism, and ADHD, but anyone can experience it. Taking ...

If you walk into work already feeling noise, lights, and office chatter turning up the volume in your mind, the overwhelm is real. Prefer to listen rather than read? Press play below. For ...

A young child sitting at a classroom table gets a high five from their teacher. Source: RDNA Stock Project / Pexels Half of all school-age children are hypersensitive to at least one sensation, and as ...

Sensory processing differences refer to atypical ways in which the brain receives, organizes, and responds to sensory inputs such as sound, touch, light, movement ...

Your colleague's perfume assaults you every time you walk by, the noise of the refrigerator obsesses you to the point where you have to wear earplugs, and your partner's facial expressions send you ...

Sensory overload occurs when the brain becomes overwhelmed by the volume or nature of the sensory inputs it receives. Sensory inputs can be any stimuli that enter through one of the sensory modalities ...