Visual Overload.

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When I look at certain images, usually high contrast or too much information, I get a severe disgust / repulsion reaction. It's as if I am looking at a gruesome image, but I am not.

For example things like some MRI scan pictures make me freak out internally. Yesterday a certain diagram in a slide in a biochemistry lecture resulted in me shaking and having to look away until it was gone. It was a diagram of the structure of haemoglobin. Wtf I do not understand why I had that reaction.

I have a visual processing disorder and scotopic sensitivity too, could it be one of those? (As the images that make my head freak out are usually high contrast ones)

Is there anything I can do to stop this? As I intend to do a Masters in Neuroscience which will involve looking at many MRI scans.

I feel stupid.

Thanks.

I wear orange glasses but they don't stop this reaction. They just make it easier and less painful to read.

I also have visual overload (It's actually my main reasons for my meltdowns) and my overloads are caused by something completely random, things that swing and things that aren't swinging but are capable of swinging. I thought I was having panic attacks but now I know it was a meltdown. I don't know much about the conditions you have so I can't say if they're related to what you experienced. I'm sure someone on here will have great insight for you though! But in the mean time, I'd just write down the certain MRI images that bother you and perhaps look at them again in the future to see if you have the same reaction again. If you do, the only way to get through it is to develop a coping mechanism. I wish I could just say "don't look at those particular images again" but I know you have to. Sigh

Recently begun getting visual overload with words and using them.

Thanks. I guess I'll just have to cope then.

Ah, I meant to write something more here but I forgot (sorry).

I had thought: Is there any way for you to get an example of the images that give you problems and try to fiddle around with the picture on a computer to increase/descrease contrast or change the color profile and see if your reaction is the same? Or could you try looking at only parts of it at a time? (Or would that be impossible because of how it makes you feel to look at the picture?) Just to see if you could figure out what it is about the picture that causes the reaction.

I get angry and a strange feeling I can't explain...like a restless head spinney feeling.
I learned I can't be on my iPad and have the TV on at the same time.
I live close to the city so there are many times where I am visually overstimulated.
A crowd of people to me starts when there are 3 people together.

Recently I started to wear glasses that are slightly a higher magnification than I require. They slightly blur the world for me. But most times when I'm outside I have to wear sunglasses. The tint really helps.