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Living with the effects/residuals of Encephalitis (which I acquired at the age of 2 years) I truly wish more people would understand this. I've felt so much misunderstood all my life - only when I discovered "Survivors+" on the Internet and Facebook I
found other people in the same situation.

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When I feel overstimulated, overemotional, stressed, etc I have a bad habit of "emotionally flying off the handle" where I dump a lot of what's on my mind in the lap of someone who really had nothing to do with the situation! Later I often feel embarrassed that I acted in such a way. I've tried to find different ways to deal with "irritablity." Medication has helped the most. Getting exercise, having down time, reading, just breathing have also been effective. My main goal for myself is to delay the reaction time, wait and see how I feel later.

There are a couple of strategies that have been useful for me.
First of all, getting lots of books from the library to read and relax with. I find that the majority of the time I'm overstimulating/overarousing myself because I don't want to do anything that requires "work" and so I turn on the tv, but then it can stretch to more tv, and thus the overstimulation. Books also require less effort but don't overstimulate me. If there's a book I want to read badly enough then I'll choose that over more arousingl/loud entertainment.

Cleaning up my apt, esp before bed is also helpful. I also reguarly go through and organize/reorganize things because too much "stuff' can throw me off.....

I never thought of clothes/fabrics before as contributing or detracting from self-calming, but the more I think about it, the more I realize the connection! Both in the potentially uncomfortable sense and in the soothing sense. For example, I love to be wrapped up in a blanket and walk around home in a blanket, even if it's not cold.....

Thanks to you both for sharing your experience. My goal in doing blogs was to facilitate sharing information. When it comes down to it, we are not as different as we assume and can learn a great deal from each other. An assumption frequently is that the same forms of arousal effects us all the same. Not true! Self-awareness and individual choices make for a more comfortable and healthy environment. Having a partner or partners makes it more difficult as each of us is unique in our response to our environment. Gaining that self-knowledge is truly a work in progress!