Big box stores, Walmart etc. After 10 minutes I feel like I’m getting the flu. Weak. Headache. Fuzzy. I hear it from other people too. They attribute it to the lights, security system, plastic fumes…
We used to joke that they have a giant soul-sucking machine in the basement.
Yes… Because I have anxiety stemming from being around crowds of people. That’s why I only shop at places like that when they first open in the morning and nobody is there and they aren’t playing music/ads hella loud yet.
I got like this in shopping malls, and some big box stores until my early 20s. I’m sure it’s related to some type of social anxiety or overstimulation.
I feel overwhelmed at stores especially when they’re busy. I found that shopping with noise cancelling headphones/earbuds helps massively.
The lights bother me and something makes a high pitched sound that bothers me (tho this is getting better as my hearing goes).
Nope, can’t say I’ve ever heard of this before
Just to mix things up:
No, I haven’t experienced such a thing but I’m also barely ever in a big box store
I bet you don’t even own a TV.
Put me in the hospital for nerves and then they had to commit me…
I don’t get it but thanks
No.
No but being in one ranks highly on my not want to do list.
i feel anxious sick there, but not sick sick
I felt like that last week at the farmer’s market. I hate it.
OP, please reword to be an open ended question.
no
Lights, general dystopia, annoyance at zombie like customers just roving the aisles; impeding my existence, never having what I actually went there to get.
Yeah. Big box stores are a fucking nightmare all the goddamn time.
And the worst part is knowing I could’ve given Jeff Bezos more money and caused myself less of a nightmare-time by just ordering whatever stupid shit I was looking for off Amazon and transferring the psychic damage to the warehouse and delivery drivers.
But all these memories… tears in the rain, etc. etc.
Wear an N95. Nearly all the fumes will be filtered.
Correct—you’ll have lovely pure fumes with none of those nasty larger particulates.
Seriously, read up on what N95 filters out. It most certainly isn’t gaseous fumes, vapours, or VOCs. If you’re using them for things like paint spraying, good luck.
Yes. I get sweaty and kind of panicky. I usually do curbside pickup for thjs reason, but if I have to go, I plan out my path and keep my head down.
