I don't know if I'm just weird but...

[louisiannah]

Hello,

Bit of a strange and kind of lighthearted post but anyway..
I am SO sensitive to sound to the point it angers me. Examples of this: If the TV is too loud of an evening (it will be on a low volume and I can't deal with it even though it's really not high to anyone else), sometimes the fridge freezer will make noises that annoy me, the bathroom extractor fan noise irritates the life out of me. I don't really know how to describe it to be honest but other examples are people breathing too loudly by me, eating loudly, loads of things. Am I the only one? It honestly is really effecting my daily life! I don't know what to do about it because i feel like I'm just quite clearly very sensitive to literally ANY noise whatsoever and it angers me massively. Going into bury places and there's loads of noise makes me want to run home is another example. I don't want to go the doctors in fear of him laughing at me and telling me to in polite words to get over myself!

My DP speaks very wistfully about the possibility of going a bit deaf in his old age and having the option to turn his hearing aid off!

@AtrociousCircumstance

Your partner shouldn’t be watching tv in your bedroom when you need to sleep.

He should wear headphones for that or watch elsewhere - that’s selfish of him.

This^^ I am not noise sensitive, and can sleep through loud snoring, in fact most noises that are 'natural' wind, thunder etc. but my late husband watched TV in bed for a while, when he was ill and his sleep was disrupted, it drove me mad, and I insisted that he wore earphones, but the everchanging light also disturbed me. I miss him in all sorts of ways, but I don't miss that!

It's clashing noises that get me. When 2 TVs are on different channels or even same channel but slightly out of sync.
Or someone playing a YouTube video when tv on.

One at a time please!

This is me. Especially hearing people breathe!! And the TV being loud. My partner plays music on his phone loud when cooking and I just can not be there when it's on. You're not alone.

Yep, I have this - to the point of absoutely white-hot rage. Next door have just had a baby and its crying through our very thin walls has had me nauseous and close to tears a few times already

It's horrible. Rain sounds are the only thing that helps cover it for me, but even that after a while feels really intrusive and painful to listen to. Headphones don't seem to work, I'd need 100% blocking of all sound because I get hyper-attuned to the noise and can still hear through earplugs or headphones.

I feel your pain, OP.

I think Ricky Gervais has it, jokes about it quite often.

I can’t bear the TV being too loud but rarely notice other people’s breathing.

You can get wireless headphones specifically for TVs so that might help. I find humming a song in my head helps, also have you had your hormones checked as I get real noise rage about a week before af.
And whoever made the first crisps was evil.

We agreed years ago never to have a TV in the bedroom and I'm so glad. I don't think I could cope with it. Even if they have headphones there is still the flickering light which is just as disruptive to sleep.

I highly recommend these OP.

www.acscustom.com/uk/products/hearing-protection/pro-series

I get like that when my depression spirals. It's a big warning that I'm not ok. I literally can't bear the sound of the cat eating her dried food or the TV on the lowest volume. I feel totally raw , everything is too bright, too loud, too much.

My partner has this. He is doing CBT to keep his response to it under control, but it can't be "cured" per se AFAIK.

Or even "diagnosed"

Newcastle university has finally published a seminal piece of research about Misophonia and misokinesia this week highlighting which part of the brain is affected, hopefully it will pave the way for treatment finally

At the moment, Prozac can have some limited effect, EMDR is having some interesting results

For sleep have a look at Bose sleep buds and noise cancelling headphones for day time