extra strong sensitivities

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I have extra strong sensitivities which is giving me a problem. i am overly sensitive to what i see even if it wouldn't really affect me. Being overly sensitive is one of the main hindrance to my life. What can i do? Please advice me.

Hearing: wear headphones when walking around if you are able to. I usually only take mine off if I'm walking with someone, or if I need to interact with someone (cashier or whatnot).

Smells: hold your breath and quickly walk past whatever the smell may be. If you have to stay near the smell for a while, I have no clue. Smells usually aren't a big problem. Just the occasional smoker and perfume aisle.

Sight: look up or down, away from everything. Use sunglasses if it's too bright (I usually just stick it out, it's not that big of an issue for me most of the time).

Taste: just find stuff you can handle. I don't like spicy food, and most people I know, know this. I have my orders tweaked sometimes if it really bothers me.

Touch: find clothes that are comfortable. Tell people to not touch you. Not too big of a problem here.

Things like aftershave really bother me. Also, most canned shaving cream (I use shaving soap in a mug).

I lost most of my sense of smell years ago during a particularly bad case of the flu. Even when I can't smell the aftershave or shaving cream, the presence still gets to me.



When I don't wear sunglasses outside in the daytime, I'm squinting so bad that my eyes are nearly closed. In my office, I allowed all the overhead lights to burn out but one pair and even they are brighter than I would like.



Do you mean spicy as in hot or spicy as in lots of strong flavor?

Before I lost most of my sense of smell, my food tastes were very bland. After lowing most of my sense of smell, I couldn't tell the difference between foods by taste for a very long time. The one exception was Indian foods. With all of the bold flavors in the Indian foods, they quickly became my favorite food.



I like very well-worn clothes. I've tried several different detergents to wash them in and finally settled down on Charlie's Soap as my preference. One problem I had with the detergents I would buy at the local store was that I would have to wash my clothes in less than the normal portions of the detergent and then run them through the wash cycle once or twice more to rinse all of the detergent out. Otherwise, it felt like I was getting some kind of chemical burns from the detergent.

One of these days I need to go buy some more towels. The ones I have are so rough that they don't feel very good at all on my skin. It probably doesn't help that I wash them after every time I use them.