Monday, January 17, 2022

Sensory overload

 Why is everything

So deafeningly loud

Every voice raised

Every light blazed

Every smell permeating through 

Every inch of my body

I try to keep breathing

I close my eyes and beg for a quieter tomorrow


The noisiness isn’t just external

It rages with the internal mess

The voices and cackles of anorexia

And the autism, and worries and panics and need for understanding and constancy. When the internal world and external world collide

The panic, the white wash of troubled waters feels like 

A crushing pressure on my chest

In my throat

Buzzing in my head

So much more than unrest

So much more than anxiety 

The most intense distress. 

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