Meds for those who are hyper sensitive to sensory infp

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I like most people on this forum have Autism Spectrum Disorder.
I also suffer from sensory impairment across the senses but most significantly, i am hyper sensitive to sound and visual stimuli.

I believe that being a hyper sensitive person with Autism Spectrum Disorder, can make a person become hyper vigilant.
I suggest that the reason why this happens is because ASD brains either create more noradrenaline due to the extra sensory information that we experience, or, us hyper sensitives simply have a lower tolerance level for noradrenaline.

I have found over the past 20 years, that many of the newer antidepressants on the market, are too "stimulating" for me, and instead of curing me of my anxiety and depression, they can have an adverse affect of increasing my hyper sensitivity while putting me into a hyper vigilant state.

I speculate that the reason why this is, is because many of the more modern antidepressants not only boost and maintain levels of various "happy" neurotransmitters boosted but also boost the neurotransmitter noradrenaline.

I have read up on why these newer antidepressants do this, and have found out that they are designed to boost and optimise the levels of noradrenaline levels, as noradrenaline levels apparently drop in people who are clinically depressed. The noradrenaline neurotransmitter is the neurotransmitter that gives normal people the get up and go sensation when normally balanced, and makes people hyper vigilant during times of distress such as when experiencing the fight, freeze and flight sensation.

So. Logically speaking, boosting noradrenaline in the brains of normal NT people who have found themselves depressed, likely works a treat, giving them more get up and go, so they no longer stay in bed all day and waste their lives dwelling in a depressed state.

However, i believe what happens when the noradrenaline is boosted in a person with ASD who is hyper sensitive to sensory information, likely isn't as productive. Imagine, your noradrenaline levels are already elevated, and the doctor then gives you one of the newer antidepressants thinking that they will work better because they are new, and new is always better right?....

well, in my experience (as this is what happened over the past 20 years or so) I have been given a number of different antidepressants over the years.

The last few being particularly distressing. The last few antidepressants i have been put on did boost noradrenaline to disasterous effect. SSNRI's in particular, not my friend.

Recently i asked to be placed on a low dose of an old tricyclic antidepressant clomipramine.
Which the doc did, and within a few days i felt miles better, especially after coming off the SSNRI Duloxetine and later on a SSRI called vortioxetine.

Personally, i believe that the connection is likely linked to noradrenaline.
Noradrenaline is after all the neurotransmitter that makes people hyper vigilant if elevated to a high enough level.

Apparently clomipramine helps regulate noradrenaline, so balances it out rather than boosts it through the roof.
Although i do not suffer from severe metal illness, this med change most certainly has saved my life.
As the other meds were the cause of a great deal amount of my negative symptoms.

Phew... finally found a little peace. I recommend that any one who has similar sensory problems, consider telling their doc about this med, as i believe it could be useful for those who have these same problems.
Hope that helps someone...