Does anyone else react to noise like this?

[TheNoiseHurts]

Noise has always bothered me greatly.

If I'm in a group of friends and we're all chatting, if an alarm is going off in the distance or someone is tapping, or something is banging in the background, I can't concentrate on conversations until it stops.

If I'm driving and one of the kids is playing with a toy which is making a ticking or slight banging noise it's almost painful to listen to. I have an actual physical response to it, it's as though someone is stabbing pins in the back of my head. Or it's a very similar feeling to someone pulling hairs out the back of my neck, one by one.

It's really really stressful.

I can't sit in a room with a ticking clock, the stress is similar to getting into a small car crash.

I've had it all my life.

Does anyone else get this??

I have this too!! Ticking clocks are the absolute devil and make my toes feel like they might break.
Also any and all eating noises, even my 3 year old will say "let's put some music on while we we eat for Mama" as I have to just leave the room sometimes while people are eating. It's completely irriational and I hate it but I've felt this way for as long as I can remember.

I have always had a problem with noises like clocks I can't deal with the ticking , I don't have any in the house. Other loud noises can drive me up the wall. I didn't know there was term for it or others had this . It's some comfort I'm not going mad. I've got a fair amount of anxiety around this.

I live in noise cancelling headphones at home as neighbour noise drives me daft. I’d I could live alone on an island I would.

I have deliberately chosen a job where I work on my own and have minimal contact with others. Mainly after training someone who appeared to live on crisps.

I find eating out almost impossible. And winter sniffing and coughing is unbearable.

I wish I didn’t have this but I do. It is what it is. And it isn’t magically going to change after 50 odd years.

Anyone had therapy to manage this ?