Dear FRxxxxxx -

(Sounds like a bad abbreviation on the title of a German matron, doesn't it.)

Seriously, your description of agony from sensory overload is on the mark, as awful as your experience is, and I'll confess, much more extreme than my own. That said, at my worst times, I too can't stand the sound of the TV or the touch of my 9 year old son - who just wants to give me a massage - even though I don't have any allydonia per se. It's the essence of the vibratory experience that's the problem. Fortunately, I'm able to simply bear down with a lot of meds and that usually takes care of the issue, but then again I'm not a university student, having to get my work done. As ill as you are, you continue to amaze me.

Mike