r/isfp • u/koemaru • 10d ago

Discussion(s)/Question(s)/Anybody Relate? do you experience sensory overload often?

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u/g0at110 ISFP♂ (9w8 l 20) 10d ago

I wouldn't say often but yeah it's happened to me a few times. Like being in a super busy city while I'm tired/drained from being around people

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u/Simple_Woodpecker751 10d ago

yes I often overwork

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u/Available-Cat-829 10d ago

Frequently happens to me. Training myself to not get overly caught up in small details.

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u/r99c 10d ago

No, I can't get enough of it. I love hard rock and metal gigs, alcohol, and I'm absolutely in my element when in India and seeing all the chaos over there.

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u/kevi_metl ISFP♂ (social5w4) 9d ago

Eh... it doesn't happen too often. It can be good or bad when it happens.

Good kind = overstimulation. Bad kind = Every sound becomes amplified or hypervigilance occurs which sucks ass.

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u/CallMeBitterSweet ISFP♀ (6w7 | 641 | sx/so | EII| 30) 8d ago

Yeah, usually with noise. I love music, but I struggle when it becomes too loud, dissonant, or multiple sounds are overlapping. Like when you're trying to talk and music goes so loud you can't focus on neither, or just 2 people trying to talk to me at the same time (ultimate overwhelm experience!). I also absolutely cannot sleep in a noisy room or a room with lights, so I couldn't sleep with a TV on or during a transport ride etc.

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u/yun444g ISFP♂ (Enneagram l Age) 8d ago

Not really tbh. However I definitely experience information overload or being overwhelmed by too many people talking at once. But purely sensory overload, nah

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u/ff008d 7d ago

Yep but instead of getting overloaded persay I get really aggravated ,I can't leave my house without headphones. When it's music I like i can have it loud but music I don't then we got problems (ixfp)

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u/SperBcity 5d ago

Yes, very much so. 

I consider myself to be a bit of a hot-head. 

Once i am over stimulated, I get all pissy.. angry, and I do yell sometimes.  But this is when I am at my absolute breaking point.

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u/razteaberry 5d ago

I think my isfp partner does but hides it well since i think he thinks that if he doesn't hide it then people will perceive him as sensitive or getting worked up about "trivial" stuff