Poll Did Ptsd Make Your Senses More Acute?

[OKRADLAK]

Have any of your senses become more acute since your PTSD? I put out this poll because mine have become agonizingly sensitive and I have to wear earplugs, stay away from noise, touch even hurts.......almost like it must feel to have autism..........

 

[Moony]

Definately. My sense of touch is probably the most difficult to cope with. It's ok when I touch things, but if people touch me it feels uncomfortable. I also wake up at the slightest noise (sometimes simply my clock ticking). I generally feel uncomfortable in my surroundings. I'm not sure about sight - sometimes I see things that I know can't be real, but I guess that's different.

 

[Gamereign555]

I think it depends on what I'm doing but I don't like to be touched either. If I'm busy doing something and my girlfriend touches me I react with(hard to describe but I dont like it)
My hearing can also make me pretty jumpy if I am already anxious, I tend to hear my heart beating against my pillow when trying to sleep.
Clock ticking drives me nuts, took the batteries out.
These are all things that used to bother me every once and awhile, but now I'm much more sensitive to it.
I feel like florescent light tubes with the covers bother me for some reason, they make me feel I'll.

 

[Béatrice]

Hello Okradlak, my friend has a serious problem with noise. She has to wear earplugs almost all the time, especially outside. She can't stand high pitch noises, especially children shouting and crying, or things like banging dishes.
How does it make you feel inside?
Has someone heard of a possibility to get better from it?

 

[OKRADLAK]

I use earplugs all the time, too! I carry them in my pocket. It is embarrassing because people ask why I am wearing them. In church I even have to wear them if I go and people look at me.

It makes me feel terrible inside. Like a chain saw cutting my soul in two.

 

[The Albatross]

Hearing and smell are my two more acute ones... apparently even with allergies and being a smoker I have a nose like a blood hound, and I can hear during testing lower than normal and higher that normal tones, and even very small sounds... despite scarring on my eardrums from chronic childhood ear infections. The ENT's were really surprised.

 

[Gamereign555]

You know, its only when I'm anxious that I feel these things. Lately I am feeling pretty good and feel little to no anxiety, though I know it is still there. That being said I am not bothered by the things that usually drive me nuts.

Kill the anxiety, kill the symptoms.

Problem is, this isn't going to last long for me, sooner or later I will have more responsibilities. I'll get a job again, be driving places more, paying more bills and talking to more people and this is going to happen all over again.

When I am felling bad I hear slightest noises and my skin crawls.

 

[Rob_Dog19]

I have to wear sunglasses or keep my eyes shut in brightly lit places. I drove an er dr crazy once because he kept telling me to look at him in the eyes and I would shut them after 2 seconds. Noise isn't quite so irritating, but I do have hyperacute hearing too...I can hear my parents whispering across the house when I'm focusing...Loud noises are bad...though I was never in a traumatic situation with loud noises, I am startled incredibly easy...

 

[anni]

Yes. I'm tempted to leave the answer with one word only because it's kind of across the board. Noise would be the worst, I think, and light next- I wear hats and visors a LOT. The input to what's left of the computer in the head is just too strong. requires various filters through the day.

 

[AngelaMarie]

Sensitive to light, sensitive to sound. I wear earplugs sometimes when I go out. I wear earphones at night that are hooked up to my computer because every sound wakes me up. I even feel vibrations sometimes when people are walking that disturb me. This has been going on for a long time. It does get better sometimes when I am not dealing with so many stressors, but when I am under pressure I feel like I have bionic senses.:confused:

 

[anthony]

Poll adjusted. Please read the thread on how to create a poll correctly please, before creating more of them.

 

[CraftyCath]

I am sensitive to light, sound and smell but I always was. So I am not sure if this has got stronger since the PTSD or if it was always like that. I'm a sensitive person, aware of others needs and care deeply. I have exceptional hearing for someone of my age (47) and when it was tested recently they said I had the hearing of a teenager. I also have tinnitus which is made worse because I hear so well. My sight is pretty poor and I don't like to be touched. I voted for slightly as I'm not sure if I have always had heightened senses.