Signs Of Avoiding Crowds Because It Is Too Stimulated, Recognize How To Overcome

Illustration of signs of avoiding crowds due to overstimulation and how to overcome (Freepic/the Yuri Arcurs Collections)

YOGYAKARTA Feels excessive stimulation in several living points, makes a person tend to pull away from the crowd. For example, when you step into a party and immediately feel tired from the loud sound of music, many people laugh loudly, change colors, and because many things compete to get your attention.

Overstimulated or received a lot of sensory information captured by all five senses, then forwarded to your brain and nervous system, so moved to respond. But sometimes, when everything is too much and you feel too stimulated, the only thing you want is to shut down and not do anything.

Too stimulated is what we all experience when we receive too much sensory information, explains California-based marriage and family therapist April Snow, LMFT., reported by well+good, Wednesday, December 25. When sensory information is received beyond what your nervous system can process, the nervous system misinterprets it as a threat. Then it drives a person into hyperarousal (fighting or running) or hypoarausal (embedding).

"If you have experienced anxiety, depression, sadness, or experience a lot of stress, you tend to experience sensory excesses because your nervous system is already burdened," said Caitlin Slavens, MC, R Psych, a registered psychologist based in Canada.

Excess sensory can occur for many reasons. For example, because you feel sick, hungry, tired, or lack of sleep. This condition causes the nervous system to be more difficult to manage sensory information. According to Snow, people who are sensitive and have ADHD disorders as well as people with sensory processing disorders, check sensory information differently. Long-term trauma history may also affect the senses so that it can increase the risk of being too stimulated more often.

Signs are too stimulated, fight or flight or freeze modes will appear. Fight or flight is a stress response when your body decides to face threats directly or avoid them altogether. Instead, freeze occurs when your body feels trapped, stiff, or frozen when facing a stress trigger. While in fighting mode or flight, it may experience anxiety, irritability, anger, overwhelm, fast breath, and a racing mind. However, when experiencing mode freeze, you may feel lethargic or lazy, sad, numb, difficulty concentrating, and difficulty making decisions and completing actions.

So how do you deal with it when you feel too stimulated? Cara petama, tell yourself that you are safe. Speaking to yourself is an effective way to calm down. By reminding your nervous system that you are safe, the nervous system breaks away from the "threat" pedal, away from the response to fight, run, or freeze it inside.

Second, shift it to other things that can create an overview of calm and a sense of security. Third, slow down what you do even if it's only a little. By slowing down speed, nerves have room to process sensory information so they are ready to receive the information. Fourth, look for a quiet place to rest on your senses. This will make the nervous system relax a little bit and the mind can more clearly process information. Fifth, practice breathing consciously. This method of meditation reduces stress and calms the nervous system.

That is an explanation of overstimulated or overstimulated which tends to encourage a person to avoid crowds. It is important to realize that if the strategy of managing in responding to the sensory information above cannot help, it is necessary to seek help. Especially if anxiety, stress, and depression disturbs you for daily activities.