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.
Sounds like anxiety, possibly social or stimulation. Do you get like this in other super crowded locations that are not enclosed (think open air malls, concerts, etc.)? What about in a location that has constant background noises, but you're alone or with very few people?
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.
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.
Walmart depresses me with its new bare concrete floors, and dystopian looking decor. The sheer amount of stuff to look it is overwhelming, too. So yeah, I don't like going there.
I'm not affected by the visuals afaict. I do wonder about the air. I always wear an N95 respirator in any store and that helps filter pathogens. I haven't brought a CO2 monitor or anything like that though. I have been wanting to do that.
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 couldโve 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 memoriesโฆ tears in the rain, etc. etc.
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.
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.