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  2. Are You Mad or Are You Just Overstimulated? - AOL

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    /ˌoʊ.vɚ.stɪm.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/ You know those days where everything feels overwhelming? The grocery store lights are blinding, your sweater feels like sandpaper, and your kid’s music recital ...

  3. Sensory overload - Wikipedia

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    In a situation where a person with OCD is subjected to an environmental stimuli that elicits compulsion, such as getting dirt on their hands, they may feel overwhelmed by sensory stimuli and deal with this sensory overload through mitigating the stress with compulsions such as repetitive hand washing.

  4. Sensory processing disorder - Wikipedia

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    While many people can present one or two symptoms, sensory processing disorder has to have a clear functional impact on the person's life: Signs of over-responsivity, [12] including, for example, dislike of textures such as those found in fabrics, foods, grooming products or other materials found in daily living, to which most people would not ...

  5. Hypokalemic sensory overstimulation - Wikipedia

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    Hypokalemic sensory overstimulation is a term coined by MM Segal and colleagues to describe a syndrome of sensory overstimulation, ineffectiveness of the local anesthetic lidocaine, and in females, premenstrual syndrome (PMS). [1]

  6. 7-year-old writes note to get out of school early -- and it ...

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    A sneaky little 2nd grader in Texas pulled off an impressive stunt to get out of going to her after school program.

  7. Sensory processing sensitivity - Wikipedia

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    A human with a particularly high measure of SPS is considered to have "hypersensitivity", or be a highly sensitive person (HSP). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The terms SPS and HSP were coined in the mid-1990s by psychologists Elaine Aron and her husband Arthur Aron , who developed the Highly Sensitive Person Scale (HSPS) questionnaire by which SPS is measured ...

  8. Amygdala hijack - Wikipedia

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    Amygdala hijack—threat response to emotional stimulus. An amygdala hijack is an emotional response that is immediate, overwhelming, and out of measure with the actual stimulus because it has triggered a much more significant emotional threat. [1]

  9. Psychological effects of Internet use - Wikipedia

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    According to the article 'Digital power: exploring the effects of social media on children's spirituality', children consider the Internet as their third place after home and school. [36] One of the main effects social media has had on children is the effect of cyber bullying.