Anyone else feel like their ears are bleeding during the holidays? (Just me?)

Sensory sensitivities can make the holidays….”less festive” and more “lets get out of here.” Any of these symptoms sound familiar?

Read the full article here in Additude Magazine

“Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD)” disrupts how the brain — the top of the central nervous system — takes in, organizes, and uses the messages received through our body’s receptors. We take in sensory information through our eyes, ears, muscles, joints, skin and inner ears, and we use those sensations – we integrate them, modulate them, analyze them and interpret them — for immediate and appropriate everyday functioning.”

For example, you hear a truck rumbling down the road as you’re standing poised to cross the street, and that noise tells you, “Jump back.” You don’t think about it, you just react instinctively, if all is going well. But sometimes with SPD, that processing falters. For people with SPD, external and internal sensory stimuli can cause signals to misfire — and problems in movement, emotions, and relationships to manifest.

-SPD can complicate everything from getting dressed to eating to grooming — and that’s just the before leaving for work. The following are common triggers for discomfort:

• Hair brushing

• Tight clothes or coarse fabric

• Loud noises such as fireworks or thunder

• Bright lights like camera flashes, sunshine, or strobes

• Strong odors including perfume or scented detergent

• Swimming in lakes

• Sticky fingers

• Tags on clothes

• Being touched or hugged

• Wearing shoes

• Tart or bitter foods

or children doing…..ALL THE THINGS THAT CHILDREN DO DURING THE HOLIDAYS. If you’re feeling overwhelmed by the sounds, the lights, the smells, the long sleeves, and so so so much talking…you’re not alone.

And also…. seriously…buy these…

Loop Engage ear buds