Sensory overload is when your five senses — sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste — take in more information than your brain can process. When your brain is overwhelmed by this input, it enters ...

A young child sitting at a classroom table gets a high five from their teacher. Source: RDNA Stock Project / Pexels Half of all school-age children are hypersensitive to at least one sensation, and as ...

When a person becomes overwhelmed by their environment — including sights, sounds, smells, or touch — they may experience what's known as sensory overload. This happens when information comes in at ...

Your colleague's perfume assaults you every time you walk by, the noise of the refrigerator obsesses you to the point where you have to wear earplugs, and your partner's facial expressions send you ...

Sensory overload occurs when the brain becomes overwhelmed by the volume or nature of the sensory inputs it receives. Sensory inputs can be any stimuli that enter through one of the sensory modalities ...

Sensory overload is the overstimulation of one or more of the body’s five senses. People will respond differently to feeling overstimulated, but symptoms often include anxiety, discomfort, and fear.