Feeling Overwhelmed with Your ADHD? Revival Psychiatry in Mesa Arizona Can Help You.

People in the ADHD world experience life more intensely, more passionately than neurotypicals. They have a low threshold for outside sensory experience because the day-to-day experience of their five senses and their thoughts is always on high volume. The ADHD nervous system is overwhelmed by life experiences because its intensity is so high.

The ADHD nervous system is rarely at rest. It wants to be engaged in something interesting and challenging. Attention is never “deficit.” It is always excessive, constantly occupied with internal reveries and engagements. When people with ADHD are not in The Zone, in hyperfocus, they have four or five things rattling around in their minds, all at once and for no obvious reason, like five people talking to you simultaneously. Nothing gets sustained, undivided attention. Nothing gets done well.

Many people with ADHD can’t screen out sensory input. Sometimes this is related to only one sensory realm, such as hearing. In fact, the phenomenon is called hyperacusis (amplified hearing), even when the disruption comes from another of the five senses. Here are some examples:

🧠The slightest sound in the house prevents falling asleep and overwhelms the ability to disregard it.
🧠Any movement, no matter how small, is distracting.
🧠Certain smells, which others barely notice, cause people with ADHD to leave the room.

Contact Revival Psychiatry today to learn how we can assist with a diagnosis and treatment options.