The Pulse

Sensory Overload


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Pam Gilbert could hear things that other people couldn’t. That superpower quickly turned into a nightmare when she began to hear noises inside her own body — her heartbeat was as load as a booming bass drum, and her eyeballs moving sounded like a high pitched screeching.

We follow her through her first symptoms, her darkest moments, and finally, to her diagnosis. 

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