Hypersensitive and Hyperemotional?

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The dye in clothes at clothing stores. First that, then my defenses are down. Then I get overwhelmed by everything else and have to either get out, or have a nervous breakdown.

Once again, MG, I think you may be onto something!

Thanks everyone who has replied. Is it the smell of the dye that causes issues?
Is something you mention there. Clothes shops, carpet shops.and wool shops are all shops I find that the smells make me not want to stay in them. It is only now you mention it about dye. Never thought about it. I assumed it was some sort of dust from the fibres.


I mentioned hypersensitivity to my Mum this morning and she said "Of course you will be hypersensitive. Your grandmother was..."
Then she said about herself "When you have children you just have to get over it like I had to". The big issue that I have with this is when I am in the midst of a situation that I am struggling in, I am trying to mentally switch myself off to whatever it is that is causing it, and my Mum says something like that and it turns everything back on at full force just when I am starting to cope with whatever it is, and I go into a partial shutdown.

Question. If I go deep into a partial shutdown and lose my hearing and my sight and I am on the floor (It does not last long before I partly recover and some hearing returns (Hearing returns but I may not make sense of all that is being said) and my sight returns... would what I describe as going in deep be a full shutdown? I have only just thought of this as I am writing this, as others say they have shutdowns, and I hear what they are describing, and only now realize why I try not to panic and stay calm with no fuss and need to lie down for a bit is that I am trying to avoid going into the partial shutdown deep which maybe a shutdown? Anyone have an idea?
I know it feels aweful when I get it deep, so I do all I can to avoid it.

Could hypersensivity or hyperemotional be related to thinking too much?

in my case, it was FEELING too much.

Yes, I know that, but do the two go hand in hand?

Smell is my biggest sensory problem. A variety of smells make me gag.

As for crying at movies, I can't watch anything in which an animal dies. I have experienced the loss of a pet too many times, and anything that reminds me of it makes my cry.

Aww. Hugs.

all i can say is in my case, it was NOT a cognitive [conscious thought processing] process. it was all feelings, intense feelings that i could hardly control. i was not thinking in any kinda calculating way at these times. so i would guess they don't go hand in hand with me at least. YMMV.