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can you get sensory overload from thoughts?

eyeswideopen

Hi,

I have very bad ocd as one of my co-morbidities and with that comes a lot of intrusive thoughts. These thoughts make me stim a lot and hit myself and pull on my hair and I was wondering if this is sensory overload? I am very recently diagnosed so I’m just trying to find out what my feelings mean. But can thoughts cause sensory overload?

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  • yes, in theory, I mean sensory input and looping thoughts both end up in your head as impulses.  I have not yet seen research that indicates OCD with autism causes results in more or less sensory overloads. 

    Sounds pretty awful.

    My OCD is very very mild, but is just enough to make me thankful I dont have OCD in a major way like you. 

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  • yes, in theory, I mean sensory input and looping thoughts both end up in your head as impulses.  I have not yet seen research that indicates OCD with autism causes results in more or less sensory overloads. 

    Sounds pretty awful.

    My OCD is very very mild, but is just enough to make me thankful I dont have OCD in a major way like you. 

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