Poll Did Ptsd Make Your Senses More Acute?

[Cinnamon4z]

For me, I tend to now be far more overly hyper sensitive to lights & sounds. Sometimes I can get away with a bit of indoor lighting. But i much prefer dim and comfortable environment with minimal noise. When I sleep, i use a sleep mask. I also use the mask when i need to do some meditation and stuff so normally carry it with me.

I used to enjoy going to concerts, shows, and events- but i have to watch out now as it can be very unnerving & overwhelming for me.... which sucks given how i love techno so much...even though it tends to raise my anxiety levels.... I can still enjoy a few of them but then i need time to decompress

 

[I'm not Spiderman]

@Justmehere I'm sorry to hear that you have SID. I really hope you are doing ok. Sending you lots of hugs.

 

[Ronin]

Yeah. Cities and sensory integration are whole new interesting adrenaline sport.

It gets even more hilarious when I'm injured. Shrug. If you're going through hell, keep going & explore the interesting land for something you can use, and all.

 

[Chava]

I might have answered "extremely" but just chose "significantly" because there was not a time, that I remember, when my senses were not extremely acute (trauma started probably before I was born, but certainly the minute I was pushed out into the world). Hard to know if it was the early trauma or if I was just wired like that well before I was born, since I don't remember a before-and-after. When not numbed out I'm really sensitive to textures. But in any state, I'm always very sensitive to light and sound. When stressed it gets a lot worse and I need dark and quiet.

 

[Lionheart]

I don't know when my PTSD started so I do not know if my senses became more acute.... and so I did not vote as I don't know how to answer the poll!

I can tell you this much, I am disabled with PTSD x 18 years and I do have sensory sensitivity to light, chemicals, temperatures, noise, etc. and I can easily pick up on how others feel even when they try to hide it. My senses are more acute.

 

[Chava]

I can easily pick up on how others feel

Hadn't thought of that sense, but I have that too. I recognize anxiety and anger in others particularly well.

 

[I'm not Spiderman]

Agreed, I'm much better at reading others. I'm more alert to non verbal cues- you can easily tell what their thoughts and feelings are without hearing them speak a word. People are very transparent actually.

 

[UnKnown-Self]

My senses were always acute. The sounds especially, a slight difference in someone's tone, the sound of footsteps have a language all their own. Recognizing the squeaks in the floors no matter how soft the step alerting me to who was headed where. A locks chambers on the floor below sounding like hammers. Breathing from another room and knowing how deeply the person was sleeping or not.
Watching body language became a well honed survival skill. Not realizing how telling my own now is.

 

[8888]

Yes, but it's hard to say how much. I am also diagnosed with high functioning autism, which heightens my senses. But my sensory issues are worse then most people with autism I have met. So for me my sensory issues stem from both, it's hard to say how much is just from the PTSD.

 

[The ANP]

Super sensitive to noise and lights especially fluorescent. This has gotten better over time. I also have the intuition super power of sniffing out unsafe characters.

 

[mary1979]

God.damn it


Hahaha

 

[Changing4Best]

I find lately that I am very over-sensitive to light. My computer screen brightened one day after it updated (only God knows why they would do that to me!) and I have spent days slowly getting it back down to the level I think it was at before the update did this to it. I also get uncomfortable in direct sunlight, especially near noon. I have automatic sunglasses in my tri-focals, but it takes them about a minute to darken down. In that minute I suffer, often even closing my eyes, if it is safe to do so.