All sensory input impacts me negatively

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I'm in the "mood" (I guess that's the word) described by the subject title. I turned off the music I usually listen to, and covered my eyes because the light is annoying me. For some strange reason, the normal things that usually don't bother me are adversely influencing me. What is this called? I'm not depressed, and nothing has happened to depress me, but the buzzing of my alarm clock did seem particularly rude this morning -- as if I had become hypersensitive to it and it's implied demand that I wake up. All I want to do is sleep, yet I got plenty of sound sleep last night. It's difficult to even write this. Now back to covering my eyes...

That happens to me too. It's overstimulation. It builds and builds within you unless you find a way to de-stim, so to speak. Mine is noise and light. I have my hubby give me deep pressure therapy and joint compression therapy. I take a bath in the dark and relax. I use only candlelight as much as possible. Some of that helps.
Good luck; you are not alone.

Dunno' if what I go through is like what you're describing-feeling agitated, irritated, annoyed as **** at every little thing (whether external environment or internal mental content). It's mode (not mood, in my opinion) or state of being, same stuff that normally bothers me (but I can tolerate) just bothers me way more than usual.
Have many things I'm nervous/anxious about, and they add up to my feeling angry & helpless to improve things or my reactions. My skin weirds me out, things itch, tickle, and feel rough. My life depresses me, and so on.
Taking a nap (whether or not I've slept 'enough' already), if possible, is best solution I've come up with-somehow, magically, things are slightly more bearable when I wake up. Whatever works as temporary distraction to get me through next few minutes or hours until I feel different. Don't have the "future-brain" function where I can believe I'll feel better later, yet on some level know at some point I'll be in a better frame of mind or whatever (and I just have to find way to 'hold on' until then...).
It's constant struggle.

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All unnatural sensory input goes against the fibre of my being. It grates and unnerves to the point of actually breaking down. I cry at lawn mower noise, ok? Barking dogs also can do this to me.

That said - and self-medication assumed being the evening factor in GETTING THROUGH for this one - natural noises such as trees in the wind, water rushing in waterfalls, thunder, birds - are all calmative for me. Music will help me drown out the cacaphony - has done for most of my life. Am very selective about what I put into my system - goes with food, atmosphere, air - everything counts. So even if the world is freaking me out with its incessant bleatings - I choose gentle over that.

Sensory defensiveness is a b***h...I have a pretty severe form of it. Sympathy for ya.