Sensory overload is often about uncertainty and how long the brain has to stay engaged—especially in autism and ADHD.

If you walk into work already feeling noise, lights, and office chatter turning up the volume in your mind, the overwhelm is real. Prefer to listen rather than read? Press play below. For ...

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 ...

Too much sensory input can overstimulate your brain and cause emotional distress or shutdown. Sensory overload can happen with anxiety disorders, autism, and ADHD, but anyone can experience it. Taking ...

Sensory processing differences refer to atypical ways in which the brain receives, organizes, and responds to sensory inputs such as sound, touch, light, movement ...

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 ...