ocdgirl123
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 Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 12:09 am Post subject: Do sensory issues have to hurt? |
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I have heard that sensory issues are supposed to hurt. I have heard people talk about noises being "painful", but I am the exact opposite. There are certain noises I really dislike, but they don't hurt my ears. Sometimes, they give me a "feeling" in my ears but it is painful and I kind of like it in fact. I don't feel pain in my ears even when I have ear infections. When I was 3 or 4, the doctor was really surprised because I had a severe ear infection, but it hardly hurt at all. I had a double ear infection once (severe) and felt dizzy and very sick, but still, it was not painful. People say I'm lucky, but I am not because I feel really abnormal because of this.
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For me they are not normally painfull, I just end up overwhelmed and my brain sort of stops processing things properly, it gets hard to think, and I get frustrated and withdraw. Sometimes my eyes will hurt from bright light or my ears from noise.
Perhaps you do not feel pain much anyway, so dont feel pain with sensory things, perhaps your sensory issues just dont involve pain.
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| Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 12:45 am Post subject: |
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| Seeking sensory input can also be considered a sensory "issue". |
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| Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 12:49 am Post subject: |
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| My sensory issues do hurt me some times I hate lound noises and food that is not luke warm is to hot for me to eat it burns my mouth so bad that my eyes get watery. If some one touches me while I am a sleep I will wake up throwing punches at them or if some one touches my ears. The same thing will happen. |
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No. I was told that being annoyed by sounds or bothered by them are sensory issues even though they do not hurt your ears. It's a sensory issue because the person is unable to tolerate it and most people are able to.
I read that wearing certain clothes is a sensory issue but do clothes have to feel uncomfortable on you for you to prefer certain clothes you like? What if you just preferred certain clothes because you feel more comfortable in them, not because the other clothes make you feel uncomfortable psychically, you just simply don't like them because you don't like how they look. I am like this. But sometimes my clothes to get uncomfortable on me (tactile feeling) I just want to take them off but I can't always because I am at someone's house or out in public. Pretty soon I won't be able to do that in my home anymore.
I also read that not liking to be touched is a sensory thing and it doesn't even have to hurt. You can prefer to be left alone and not be touched and when someone tries to hug you, you feel you want to get away and you feel trapped like your personal space is being invaded. This is how i feel about hugs and touches. Sometimes touch does feel painful. My husband has to get permission from me before he hugs me and he has to ask for a kiss meaning he wants to kiss me.
So no, sensory issues don't have to be painful. |
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enrico_dandolo
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| Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 2:45 am Post subject: |
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| It doesn't have to be painful, since it can include hyposensitivity. I understand them as different perceptions or a different relationship to those perceptions, be they stronger, weaker, more painful or more pleasant than to most others. |
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| Cogs wrote: | | For me they are not normally painfull, I just end up overwhelmed and my brain sort of stops processing things properly, it gets hard to think, and I get frustrated and withdraw. |
This. |
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| Not feeling sensory pain 'properly' can actually be very dangerous, because some doctors see pain levels as a diagnostic tool. My dr didn't diagnose a crisis because I 'wasn't in enough pain for it to be X' - and I nearly died. |
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| Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 4:48 am Post subject: |
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| Sounds dont hurt my ears and lights dont hurt my eyes. They hurt my mind. Like when more than 20 people are in the same area, it doesn't HURT, it drives me CRAZY, and I have to do a weird tick or pace back and forth to feel like I am even keeping up with it. I try to block it all out, and do successfully sometimes. BUT then those times, I ALWAYS only talk loud enough for me to hear. |
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| Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 9:57 am Post subject: |
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| Aren't some people hypo (under) sensitive? I'm like that with pain. (not touch, just pain) |
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| Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 10:41 am Post subject: |
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| Loud sharp sounds physically hurt me. It's like a sudden shock going through my body. |
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| Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 11:25 am Post subject: |
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The way that mine are painful is that they can trigger a migraine, or muscular tension leading to a tendinitis flare-up, which usually isn't apparent until later. What I experience during the sensory input is STRESS, which isn't physically painful of course, but definitely a problem. It's also usually distracting from whatever I'm trying to do or focus on, so there's a lot of frustration involved too.
But a really loud noise, like music played so loud there's distortion, or a child suddenly screaming right in my ear - I experience those directly as pain. Not as pain in my ears, but reverberating through my body.
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No. My sensory issues don't hurt me directly. They shut me down or overwhelm me.
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| Cogs wrote: | | For me they are not normally painfull, I just end up overwhelmed and my brain sort of stops processing things properly, it gets hard to think, and I get frustrated and withdraw. |
Pretty much what it is for me in noisy environments. |
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| Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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I'm sure they can hurt many people.
I'd imagine for those with more severe sensory issues they'd be more likely to experience pain, for example my ex-step-sister would be deemed 'LF-ASD' and often certain sounds or touches would cause her to scream in pain. For the most part mine are not painful but more uncomfortable - touching is a particular problem for me, a horrible uncomfortable feeling when touched or stroked lightly like having bugs crawl all over me. On bad days however I will be more sensitive, touching the wrong way can in fact cause me pain and I can become more sensitive to light to the point where I'd call it painful - it's different somehow from physical pain, but there is definite pain.
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