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Originally Posted by TrailRunner14
Thank you!
I completely understand the stores with the bright lights and sounds. I have the same reaction when there is too much input. It's like an overload and I can't think or remember what I'm there for.
We needed a bottle of dishwashing liquid not long ago. I went to the Dollar Store to get it, bought things that we already had at home and didn't realize I didn't get what I went for until after I got home. I actually did that 2 more times, then I realized it might help if I wrote it on a piece of paper and took it with me. I got home with it that time. lol!
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I am the same in stores... I find being out and about in town so overwhelming and dissociative. I often end up wandering around in a switchy and traumatized daze and end up with the wrong things or nothing at all.
Recently we tried the tapping trick that new T taught us while we were in town and it really helped - a few minutes after tapping I realized I was clear headed and grounded. I adapted it a little for 'public use'.... with one open hand I tapped alternate sides with thumb on one side and fingers on the other, in time to the music played over the sound system. Sneaky.
