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Shopping

Sassenach

Recently I've started to feel panicky when I'm shopping. Nothing in particular seems to set me off, it's a bit random. I start with feeling hot and cold, then feeling tearful and anxious. I generally manage to calm myself down, but it's very distressing when it happens. I'm.assuming it's sensory overload, but I'm not sure how to combat this. 

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  • My husband gets this, he comes home in overload but can’t find a reason to blame the shop. Even though it only really happens after supermarket shopping. It took me a very long time to work out that the lighting makes me feel a bit dizzy and hot, especially the trendy down lighting a lot of shops have where it’s actually quite dark or an inconsistent level of light across the place. I don’t have so many issues with background noise because I tend not to wear my hearing aids to do a long shop but if it was a busy Saturday afternoon and I had them in it might start annoying me enough to mute them!

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  • My husband gets this, he comes home in overload but can’t find a reason to blame the shop. Even though it only really happens after supermarket shopping. It took me a very long time to work out that the lighting makes me feel a bit dizzy and hot, especially the trendy down lighting a lot of shops have where it’s actually quite dark or an inconsistent level of light across the place. I don’t have so many issues with background noise because I tend not to wear my hearing aids to do a long shop but if it was a busy Saturday afternoon and I had them in it might start annoying me enough to mute them!

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