Flooding
 

Hi MicroMan,

Thanks so much for your message. I was so relieved as well to finally put a term to the sensory overload phenomenon!
Having pushed through for 5 months at my job with 150% multitasking & 60+ hrs/wk, I finally caved.
Have you had any neuro testing?
Hoping to have more info after this week-- schedule a new neuro appt as their testing is more extensive than anticipated.

Good luck~try to stay away from the sensory insults,
Grace

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This makes for excellent reading - the list of symptoms being experienced by many of us here. Am so pleased with corrective lenses and while rapt with the light sensitivity am noticing the pluses in other aspects of life, especially improvement depth of perception, reading and comprehension, and less confusion as brain not so overloaded.

Flooding aka cognitive overstimulation
 

Hi. I am new in this forum. I have an MTBI and have been taking a class that requires lots of freeway driving.Finding it hard making so many quick decisions and like my class but slower than other students. Feeling overwhelmed with driving and time demands and deadlines. Grace F:) Just learning about flooding. Now I know why the neuro doc said to not schedule too much. Hoping to learn some strategies.
Grace F

GraceF,

Welcome to NeuroTalk. My condolences for your need to drive in N Calif traffic. I just got back from Folsom. The traffic levels is quite a challenge, and I was not doing the driving.

Flooding or over-stimulation is quite common after a head injury. Most of us find we need to avoid it because we cannot push through it very well.

Learning to moderate our lives to reduce the workload and chaos is very important. Is there anything you can do to slow down your schedule ?

Feel free to start your own thread with the New Thread link at the top left of the main index page. Then, you can introduce yourself and tell us about your injury, treatment and struggles. There are plenty of people who have been through what you are going through.

The Vitamins sticky thread at the top has good information and links to resources.

My best to you.

Mark