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.
No.
The rows of flourescent lights make my eyes tired and sometimes hurt my head.
Not really. It’s not the location that’s the issue for me but rather the other people there. I get uncomfortable in big crowds. Not overly so but I don’t particularly enjoy it and at times it feels a bit suffocating.
If I spend too long (30minutes) in one of these big stores like shoe or clothes shopping I do get sick, headache, stomach feels weird. Does not happen in grocery stores though.
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
OP, please reword to be an open ended question.
no
I felt like that last week at the farmer’s market. I hate it.
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.
i feel anxious sick there, but not sick sick
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.
Yeah but my crazy mother spent 15 hours every Saturday and 15 hours every Sunday, to shop for herself and buy the barest of the bare minimum for the kids while skimping out as much as she can on them. I went consecutive years never sleeping on Sunday night because of her. I never shop in person anymore, if I’m in a store it’s for an online pickup order or exactly one item. One time my online pickup order was lost and took 20 minutes to be remade and I had a panic attack and was on the verge of vomiting. Fuck target and I hope every C*stco becomes an Amazon warehouse. Even better if Mario went for the ceo to impress his brother.
No but being in one ranks highly on my not want to do list.
Look up supermarket syndrome. It’s a thing apparently
