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01 Nov 2015, 9:11 pm

I just realized that sounds affect my ability to eat. I get drained from sound and I just realized that the more sound drained I am the less I am able to manage to eat. I actually lose the desire to eat. Just thought I'd throw that out there in case someone could relate.


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02 Nov 2015, 9:57 pm

Do you mean like if you're overloaded by noises outside your head you are too drained to eat? (I think I understand this, when I'm completely exhausted and shut down from dealing with sensory agony I'm too drained to really do anything except sleep.)

Or do you mean that withstanding the sound inside your head while you eat (the sound of chewing, the sound of things crunching), is draining and makes it hard to eat? (When I was young I would not eat really hard, crunchy foods because the sounds they made inside my head hurt my ears (they're still very loud, but not as many things are painfully loud and I have a much higher tolerance for the noise), but I don't know if that has anything to do with what you're talking about.)


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02 Nov 2015, 10:14 pm

animalcrackers wrote:
Do you mean like if you're overloaded by noises outside your head you are too drained to eat? (I think I understand this, when I'm completely exhausted and shut down from dealing with sensory agony I'm too drained to really do anything except sleep.)

Or do you mean that withstanding the sound inside your head while you eat (the sound of chewing, the sound of things crunching), is draining and makes it hard to eat? (When I was young I would not eat really hard, crunchy foods because the sounds they made inside my head hurt my ears (they're still very loud, but not as many things are painfully loud and I have a much higher tolerance for the noise), but I don't know if that has anything to do with what you're talking about.)

That is a great question. I meant the first case, noises from outside but I can see how people can also be very affected by noises inside their bodies. Sometimes noises coming from myself internally can really drain me and feel intolerable as well but in this particular OP I was referring to exterior noises.


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03 Nov 2015, 7:46 pm

I often get too distracted by noise to eat as much in public vs. in private. I don't get overwhelmed by it, though.


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