Overwhelmed

It's becoming painfully apparent that I get overwhelmed by lots of random and semi-random commotion. Like when I'm upstairs and my mom is dealing with the dog, or when I'm upstairs and my grandma is watching TV (she has to have it very loud because she's so hard of hearing, even with hearing aids), or when my mom gets home with groceries. In all of these cases, it's a lot of background noise mixed with lots of distractions and short bursts of stimuli.

Doesn't help that my mom has a very Type A personality, which is already a PTSD-like trigger for me.

All of this has been especially difficult for me these past few months, what with the holidays (LOTS of commotion there!), dealing with my food stamps getting messed up, and the dog being more crazy than normal since he's inside more. It's keeping me from being able to accomplish much of anything with my programming, or with my occult studies, or with... well, anything. And it's destroying my physical health as well. The excess stress triggers my fibromyalgia, which in turn prevents me from doing much physical activity.

I sure hope I get a break soon.

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