Guest guest Posted May 1, 2006 Report Share Posted May 1, 2006 Hi Guys To Pia, & Donna – Your frustrations with people who make the noises that drive US ALL insane are NOT the ones with the problem, so encouraging everyone to ‘Fuck them All’ isn’t really helping the people who send there love ones to this site for them to read the messages and try to understand what they are going through. It’s very counter productive and gives a negative attitude to the whole group. So although I share your frustrations please remember: THEY CANT HELP THE NOISES THEY MAKE IN THE SAME WAY WE CANT HELP OUR REACTIONS TO THEM. Neil -----Original Message----- From: Soundsensitivity [mailto:Soundsensitivity ]On Behalf Of Donna Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 12:16 PM To: Soundsensitivity Subject: Re: thanks everyone, i feel the same way and i didn't know i could say " FUCK THEM ALL " on here but it sure feels good!!!!!!! pia, i feel really bad for you at work, i KNOW what you're going through, i can't even listen to anyone BUT ME on the keyboard or clicking the mouse and as my therapist told me " seriously joking " .... " you know you can never own a gun, right " ?????? i just smiled at her. there is one thing i changed when this got worse and that is my anxiety medication, the only medication i take. i switched to klonopin maybe a year or so ago and maybe just coincidence but more and more sounds are DRIVING ME CRAZY...again, thanks for the support. donna > > > > > > > > > > > > I found you guys through a Live Journal site I > > > discovered today. > > > > >So, > > > > > > I'll just repost my intro post from there > > > > > > > > > > > > I found the LJ site because I was searching > > > online to see if > > > anyone > > > > > > else has the sort of reaction I have to food > > > noises in > > > commercials > > > > >and > > > > > > television shows. It seems lately commercials > > > have gotten way > > > worse > > > > > > about this. Especially commercials for Carl's > > > Jr. (Hardees) and > > > > > > Churches chicken. They're filled with > > > smacking, chewing, > > > slurping > > > > > > noises that make me CRAZY. I literally have a > > > physical reaction > > > to > > > > > > these commercials, almost fight or flight. My > > > heart races, my > > > skin > > > > > > crawls and I feel like I want to scream. It's > > > almost a feeling > > > of > > > > >rage > > > > > > that comes over me. I dive for the remote > > > immediately, of > > > course, > > > > >but > > > > > > even hearing a little bit of it causes a > > > reaction. If I cannot > > > find > > > > > > the remote fast enough I actually put my hands > > > of my ears and > > > sing > > > > > > loudly until the commercial is over. > > > > > > > > > > > > Am I nuts? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 1, 2006 Report Share Posted May 1, 2006 neil, i know you're right, just felt SO GOOD after years of this to " just let off some steam " .............i do feel strongly though about people who just have really bad table manners or lack of, especially older children and adults. no problem with " little kids " or babies because they don't know any better but i think as soon as kids are old enough, say 3 or 4, you start teaching them. i know that some of the other sounds i hear that drive me crazy, i have no control over, i just wish we knew what makes " us " different from people who 'can' tolerate. sincererly, donna > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I found you guys through a Live Journal site I > > > > discovered today. > > > > > >So, > > > > > > > I'll just repost my intro post from there > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I found the LJ site because I was searching > > > > online to see if > > > > anyone > > > > > > > else has the sort of reaction I have to food > > > > noises in > > > > commercials > > > > > >and > > > > > > > television shows. It seems lately commercials > > > > have gotten way > > > > worse > > > > > > > about this. Especially commercials for Carl's > > > > Jr. (Hardees) and > > > > > > > Churches chicken. They're filled with > > > > smacking, chewing, > > > > slurping > > > > > > > noises that make me CRAZY. I literally have a > > > > physical reaction > > > > to > > > > > > > these commercials, almost fight or flight. My > > > > heart races, my > > > > skin > > > > > > > crawls and I feel like I want to scream. It's > > > > almost a feeling > > > > of > > > > > >rage > > > > > > > that comes over me. I dive for the remote > > > > immediately, of > > > > course, > > > > > >but > > > > > > > even hearing a little bit of it causes a > > > > reaction. If I cannot > > > > find > > > > > > > the remote fast enough I actually put my hands > > > > of my ears and > > > > sing > > > > > > > loudly until the commercial is over. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Am I nuts? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 1, 2006 Report Share Posted May 1, 2006 Agree with Neil. Let's keep this site "clean". There is already enough garbage on the web. RE: Frustrations Hi Guys To Pia, & Donna – Your frustrations with people who make the noises that drive US ALL insane are NOT the ones with the problem, so encouraging everyone to ‘Fuck them All’ isn’t really helping the people who send there love ones to this site for them to read the messages and try to understand what they are going through. It’s very counter productive and gives a negative attitude to the whole group. So although I share your frustrations please remember: THEY CANT HELP THE NOISES THEY MAKE IN THE SAME WAY WE CANT HELP OUR REACTIONS TO THEM. Neil -----Original Message-----From: Soundsensitivity [mailto:Soundsensitivity ]On Behalf Of DonnaSent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 12:16 PMTo: Soundsensitivity Subject: Re: thanks everyone, i feel the same way and i didn't know i could say "FUCK THEM ALL" on here but it sure feels good!!!!!!! pia, i feel really bad for you at work, i KNOW what you're going through, i can't even listen to anyone BUT ME on the keyboard or clicking the mouse and as my therapist told me "seriously joking"...."you know you can never own a gun, right"?????? i just smiled at her. there is one thing i changed when this got worse and that is my anxiety medication, the only medication i take. i switched to klonopin maybe a year or so ago and maybe just coincidence but more and more sounds are DRIVING ME CRAZY...again, thanks for the support. donna> > > > > >> > > > > > I found you guys through a Live Journal site I> > > discovered today.> > > > >So,> > > > > > I'll just repost my intro post from there > > > > > >> > > > > > I found the LJ site because I was searching> > > online to see if> > > anyone> > > > > > else has the sort of reaction I have to food> > > noises in> > > commercials> > > > >and> > > > > > television shows. It seems lately commercials> > > have gotten way> > > worse> > > > > > about this. Especially commercials for Carl's> > > Jr. (Hardees) and> > > > > > Churches chicken. They're filled with> > > smacking, chewing,> > > slurping> > > > > > noises that make me CRAZY. I literally have a> > > physical reaction> > > to> > > > > > these commercials, almost fight or flight. My> > > heart races, my> > > skin> > > > > > crawls and I feel like I want to scream. It's> > > almost a feeling> > > of> > > > >rage> > > > > > that comes over me. I dive for the remote> > > immediately, of> > > course,> > > > >but> > > > > > even hearing a little bit of it causes a> > > reaction. If I cannot> > > find> > > > > > the remote fast enough I actually put my hands> > > of my ears and> > > sing> > > > > > loudly until the commercial is over.> > > > > >> > > > > > Am I nuts?> > > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 1, 2006 Report Share Posted May 1, 2006 Well said, Neil. I've always tried to make it a point not to think less of the offending person. It can be so hard though; especially in a class room or work setting, because you know who the offender is, and try at all costs to avoid them. It makes it personal. When you're in the mall, or in public transportation, and there is someone loudly chewing and snapping gum, it is SO hard not to want to rip the gum out of their mouth and smear it in their hair-- that's all part of the anxiety that accompanies this problem. We can't help that reaction, but we can slowly change our thought processes. We KNOW they are just an innocent bystander. We know they have no idea they are bothering us (the ones that give us trouble when we ask politely for them to stop is another story). We know they are just enjoying a stick of gum, or enjoying listening to their music a bit too loudly that we can hear it through their headphones, they are just enjoying tapping along to it-- they aren't TRYING to hurt us! And they have no idea that they are doing it. Think those thoughts, rather than 'FUCK THEM ALL!' They are just humans. In your everyday life you could do bothersome things to others that you don't know you're doing. Remember that Stay positive! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I found you guys through a Live Journal site I > > > > discovered today. > > > > > >So, > > > > > > > I'll just repost my intro post from there > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I found the LJ site because I was searching > > > > online to see if > > > > anyone > > > > > > > else has the sort of reaction I have to food > > > > noises in > > > > commercials > > > > > >and > > > > > > > television shows. It seems lately commercials > > > > have gotten way > > > > worse > > > > > > > about this. Especially commercials for Carl's > > > > Jr. (Hardees) and > > > > > > > Churches chicken. They're filled with > > > > smacking, chewing, > > > > slurping > > > > > > > noises that make me CRAZY. I literally have a > > > > physical reaction > > > > to > > > > > > > these commercials, almost fight or flight. My > > > > heart races, my > > > > skin > > > > > > > crawls and I feel like I want to scream. It's > > > > almost a feeling > > > > of > > > > > >rage > > > > > > > that comes over me. I dive for the remote > > > > immediately, of > > > > course, > > > > > >but > > > > > > > even hearing a little bit of it causes a > > > > reaction. If I cannot > > > > find > > > > > > > the remote fast enough I actually put my hands > > > > of my ears and > > > > sing > > > > > > > loudly until the commercial is over. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Am I nuts? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 1, 2006 Report Share Posted May 1, 2006 " her daughter's eating habits are scraping the silverware on the plate, chewing with a huge mouthful of food even to the point where it is spilling out and talking while eating " Neil, with full respect to you and your beliefs, this daughtar most certainly CAN help her noises as she is clearly acting as a pig who has absolutely no regard to social etiquette whatsoever. All the overanalyzed and pseudoscientific mumbo-jumbo aside, there is a time to call a spade a spade and if you talk with a full mouthful of food to such an extent that it is spilling out your mouth while you are talking than you are a pig. Furthermore her mother handles the situation with callousness and insensitivity (not to mention plain rudeness) by telling her daughter that Donna has a mental problem. DONNA DOES NOT HAVE A MENTAL PROBLEM BECAUSE SHE'S DISTURBED BY SOMEONE WHO BEHAVES LIKE A PIG IN HER IMMEDIATE PRESENCE! In fact, EVERYBODY SHOULD BE disturbed by such behavior. If they were, it wouldn't exist in the first place. At the same time however, people must realize that this is not reality. For that reason, tolerance, self-control and self-discipline must always be stressed and adherred to. I am brand new to this group, but I can say that I've been coming to terms with my sensitivites for a full 15 years now (completely medication free I might add, which is how I wish most people could do it but I realize this isn't always the case). I've come to realize more and more that this isn't an isolated problem, it is simply one that the medical and psychological worlds have failed to adequetly address up to this point (perhaps hecause it simply wouldn't be profitable to do so). But there is no shortage of people who are bothered by certain stimuli (such as clicking pens, poor eating habits, snoring, etc. etc.). These are commonly just casually dismised in conversation, or the person gets to a point where they can't stand certain things anymore (are overwhelmed, probably in life moreso than their handling of the stimuli) and feel that they must have a major malfunction. One example I have is of a young woman I work with. She is taking medication for ADD. She says that she needs this because she is " aware of everything that goes on in her environment. " She says she has always had this problem but she just " hides it " well. ADD seems to be the common diagnosis that people consider themselves to have because it is a conveniently broad diagnosis to make. However it isn't precise. I know that the difficulties I've had with sensitivity are totally independent of my attention span. I can be walking down the hallway, without paying attention to anything at all, but if somebody walks by me repetitively clicking a pen it is going to anger me and make me feel like grabbing the pen and breaking it to dismiss the obnoxious stimuli. Likewise, if I am in an ideal environment that is free of distractions, auditory clutter, and the working of undisciplined/unfocussed people whose energies are poorly controlled, than I have no problem paying attention to anything that I put my mind to. If I'm in class and around such a stimuli it usually just stresses me out to an extent, but not so much that it detracts from my attention span to any large degree (though I wear earplugs now to give me a little distance from these stressors and serve as a " security blanket " of sorts). In circumstances where it has noticeably distracted me it has been due to the accumulation of this stress and not direct attention deficit itself. --- Neil Holmes wrote: > Hi Guys > > To Pia, & Donna – Your frustrations with > people who make the noises > that drive US ALL insane are NOT the ones with the > problem, so encouraging > everyone to ‘Fuck them All’ isn’t really helping the > people who send there > love ones to this site for them to read the messages > and try to understand > what they are going through. It’s very counter > productive and gives a > negative attitude to the whole group. > > So although I share your frustrations please > remember: > > THEY CANT HELP THE NOISES THEY MAKE IN THE SAME WAY > WE CANT HELP OUR > REACTIONS TO THEM. > > Neil > Re: > > thanks everyone, i feel the same way and i didn't > know i could > say " FUCK THEM ALL " on here but it sure feels > good!!!!!!! pia, i feel > really bad for you at work, i KNOW what you're going > through, i can't > even listen to anyone BUT ME on the keyboard or > clicking the mouse > and as my therapist told me " seriously > joking " .... " you know you can > never own a gun, right " ?????? i just smiled at her. > there is one > thing i changed when this got worse and that is my > anxiety > medication, the only medication i take. i switched > to klonopin maybe > a year or so ago and maybe just coincidence but more > and more sounds > are DRIVING ME CRAZY...again, thanks for the > support. donna > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > There was one commercial where some guy > bites into > > > > an apple > > > > > Another one where they are selling something > that > > > > cleans your teeth > > > > with > > > > > your fingers and the dancers go SHHHHH over > and > === message truncated === Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 2, 2006 Report Share Posted May 2, 2006 Hi Chris I agree that the daughter in question has bad social etiquette and therefore a bad eating habit, but at the end of the day it is the way she eats. Does she eat like that on purpose? Truthfully I doubt it. It’s a bad habit that everyone (including people without SSS) will get annoyed with and you are right she can stop eating like that if she so chooses, I suspect she will once enough people make comments on it outside her home environment. As for the mother, she has a failure to understand and be compassionate towards her best friend. I also agree that ADD is a broad diagnosis to make for SSS sufferers and it’s not a “One Size Fits All” disorder. The only thing that seems to make me anxious or angry is the SSS stuff, the rest of my world is very calm and collected. Then there are some people who don’t mind eating noises etc at all, yet get anxious or angry over things I would consider trivial and silly. Maybe everyone has a set level of anxiety and anger and we channel all of ours into noises, where others disperse it over many other different things. Oh well, keep soldiering on everyone! Neil -----Original Message----- From: Soundsensitivity [mailto:Soundsensitivity ]On Behalf Of Hamilton Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 3:18 PM To: Soundsensitivity Subject: Re: RE: Frustrations " her daughter's eating habits are scraping the silverware on the plate, chewing with a huge mouthful of food even to the point where it is spilling out and talking while eating " Neil, with full respect to you and your beliefs, this daughtar most certainly CAN help her noises as she is clearly acting as a pig who has absolutely no regard to social etiquette whatsoever. All the overanalyzed and pseudoscientific mumbo-jumbo aside, there is a time to call a spade a spade and if you talk with a full mouthful of food to such an extent that it is spilling out your mouth while you are talking than you are a pig. Furthermore her mother handles the situation with callousness and insensitivity (not to mention plain rudeness) by telling her daughter that Donna has a mental problem. DONNA DOES NOT HAVE A MENTAL PROBLEM BECAUSE SHE'S DISTURBED BY SOMEONE WHO BEHAVES LIKE A PIG IN HER IMMEDIATE PRESENCE! In fact, EVERYBODY SHOULD BE disturbed by such behavior. If they were, it wouldn't exist in the first place. At the same time however, people must realize that this is not reality. For that reason, tolerance, self-control and self-discipline must always be stressed and adherred to. I am brand new to this group, but I can say that I've been coming to terms with my sensitivites for a full 15 years now (completely medication free I might add, which is how I wish most people could do it but I realize this isn't always the case). I've come to realize more and more that this isn't an isolated problem, it is simply one that the medical and psychological worlds have failed to adequetly address up to this point (perhaps hecause it simply wouldn't be profitable to do so). But there is no shortage of people who are bothered by certain stimuli (such as clicking pens, poor eating habits, snoring, etc. etc.). These are commonly just casually dismised in conversation, or the person gets to a point where they can't stand certain things anymore (are overwhelmed, probably in life moreso than their handling of the stimuli) and feel that they must have a major malfunction. One example I have is of a young woman I work with. She is taking medication for ADD. She says that she needs this because she is " aware of everything that goes on in her environment. " She says she has always had this problem but she just " hides it " well. ADD seems to be the common diagnosis that people consider themselves to have because it is a conveniently broad diagnosis to make. However it isn't precise. I know that the difficulties I've had with sensitivity are totally independent of my attention span. I can be walking down the hallway, without paying attention to anything at all, but if somebody walks by me repetitively clicking a pen it is going to anger me and make me feel like grabbing the pen and breaking it to dismiss the obnoxious stimuli. Likewise, if I am in an ideal environment that is free of distractions, auditory clutter, and the working of undisciplined/unfocussed people whose energies are poorly controlled, than I have no problem paying attention to anything that I put my mind to. If I'm in class and around such a stimuli it usually just stresses me out to an extent, but not so much that it detracts from my attention span to any large degree (though I wear earplugs now to give me a little distance from these stressors and serve as a " security blanket " of sorts). In circumstances where it has noticeably distracted me it has been due to the accumulation of this stress and not direct attention deficit itself. --- Neil Holmes wrote: > Hi Guys > > To Pia, & Donna – Your frustrations with > people who make the noises > that drive US ALL insane are NOT the ones with the > problem, so encouraging > everyone to ‘Fuck them All’ isn’t really helping the > people who send there > love ones to this site for them to read the messages > and try to understand > what they are going through. It’s very counter > productive and gives a > negative attitude to the whole group. > > So although I share your frustrations please > remember: > > THEY CANT HELP THE NOISES THEY MAKE IN THE SAME WAY > WE CANT HELP OUR > REACTIONS TO THEM. > > Neil > Re: > > thanks everyone, i feel the same way and i didn't > know i could > say " FUCK THEM ALL " on here but it sure feels > good!!!!!!! pia, i feel > really bad for you at work, i KNOW what you're going > through, i can't > even listen to anyone BUT ME on the keyboard or > clicking the mouse > and as my therapist told me " seriously > joking " .... " you know you can > never own a gun, right " ?????? i just smiled at her. > there is one > thing i changed when this got worse and that is my > anxiety > medication, the only medication i take. i switched > to klonopin maybe > a year or so ago and maybe just coincidence but more > and more sounds > are DRIVING ME CRAZY...again, thanks for the > support. donna > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > There was one commercial where some guy > bites into > > > > an apple > > > > > Another one where they are selling something > that > > > > cleans your teeth > > > > with > > > > > your fingers and the dancers go SHHHHH over > and > === message truncated === Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 2, 2006 Report Share Posted May 2, 2006 Perhaps you are right Neil but it felt good for us to let out some of our frustrations on the people who have been told about these problems and do not at least try to understand them. Pia no more f words from me! > >Reply-To: Soundsensitivity >To: <Soundsensitivity > >Subject: RE: Frustrations >Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 12:34:02 +1000 > >Hi Guys > >To Pia, & Donna – Your frustrations with people who make the noises >that drive US ALL insane are NOT the ones with the problem, so encouraging >everyone to ‘Fuck them All’ isn’t really helping the people who send there >love ones to this site for them to read the messages and try to understand >what they are going through. It’s very counter productive and gives a >negative attitude to the whole group. > >So although I share your frustrations please remember: > >THEY CANT HELP THE NOISES THEY MAKE IN THE SAME WAY WE CANT HELP OUR >REACTIONS TO THEM. > >Neil > Re: > >thanks everyone, i feel the same way and i didn't know i could >say " FUCK THEM ALL " on here but it sure feels good!!!!!!! pia, i feel >really bad for you at work, i KNOW what you're going through, i can't >even listen to anyone BUT ME on the keyboard or clicking the mouse >and as my therapist told me " seriously joking " .... " you know you can >never own a gun, right " ?????? i just smiled at her. there is one >thing i changed when this got worse and that is my anxiety >medication, the only medication i take. i switched to klonopin maybe >a year or so ago and maybe just coincidence but more and more sounds >are DRIVING ME CRAZY...again, thanks for the support. donna > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I found you guys through a Live Journal site I > > > > discovered today. > > > > > >So, > > > > > > > I'll just repost my intro post from there > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I found the LJ site because I was searching > > > > online to see if > > > > anyone > > > > > > > else has the sort of reaction I have to food > > > > noises in > > > > commercials > > > > > >and > > > > > > > television shows. It seems lately commercials > > > > have gotten way > > > > worse > > > > > > > about this. Especially commercials for Carl's > > > > Jr. (Hardees) and > > > > > > > Churches chicken. They're filled with > > > > smacking, chewing, > > > > slurping > > > > > > > noises that make me CRAZY. I literally have a > > > > physical reaction > > > > to > > > > > > > these commercials, almost fight or flight. My > > > > heart races, my > > > > skin > > > > > > > crawls and I feel like I want to scream. It's > > > > almost a feeling > > > > of > > > > > >rage > > > > > > > that comes over me. I dive for the remote > > > > immediately, of > > > > course, > > > > > >but > > > > > > > even hearing a little bit of it causes a > > > > reaction. If I cannot > > > > find > > > > > > > the remote fast enough I actually put my hands > > > > of my ears and > > > > sing > > > > > > > loudly until the commercial is over. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Am I nuts? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 4, 2006 Report Share Posted May 4, 2006 " The only thing that seems to make me anxious or angry is the SSS stuff, the rest of my world is very calm and collected. Then there are some people who don’t mind eating noises etc at all, yet get anxious or angry over things I would consider trivial and silly. " That's a very astute observation. Although I wouldn't assume that the rest of the world is calm and collected simply because it appears that way. There is one young woman I work with who is on some medication for ADD because she says " she is aware of everything that goes on around her " (as in she can't block extra stimuli out). She has essentially told me that she feels she's nuts but just hides it well. I think a lot of these things do bother people but instead of showing it they hide it. An even better example I think is of my brother, who had to sleep in a small room next to the room where my father snores every night for many years. When I went on vacation with my dad and brother a couple years ago we all shared the same room. I as you can imagine couldn't stand trying to sleep with that noise in the environment. I had to go outside and try to sleep in a hammock by the pool. I mentioned it to my brother later and he said to me " I had to sleep in the room next to that for years. You get used to it. " From that I gathered that, even though my brother is a person who has never shown any signs of this, his initial reaction to it was the same as mine. At a certain point however his mind/brain accomodated it, probably by conscious decision as he knew (or at least thought) their was nothing that he could do about it. If I had been in that situation I would have handled it differently I'd imagine. I probably would have ended up sleeping on a sofa, eventually putting a mat down somewhere downstairs. I really believe something like that gives people an initial reaction for a reason. Even if you accomodate a noise such as heavy snoring, I can't imagine that there still aren't times where it might bother a person. Therefore a person with this particular condition is better equipped to handle some situations (or find potential solutions to some difficult situations) whereas somebody with the condition of accomodation is better equipped to adapt to certain stimuli, which is better for sheer conveniency although it is undetermined as to what the cumulative affects of these stimuli may be when taken altogether over a period of time. --- Neil Holmes wrote: > Hi Chris > > I agree that the daughter in question has bad social > etiquette and therefore > a bad eating habit, but at the end of the day it is > the way she eats. Does > she eat like that on purpose? Truthfully I doubt it. > It’s a bad habit that > everyone (including people without SSS) will get > annoyed with and you are > right she can stop eating like that if she so > chooses, I suspect she will > once enough people make comments on it outside her > home environment. As for > the mother, she has a failure to understand and be > compassionate towards her > best friend. > > I also agree that ADD is a broad diagnosis to make > for SSS sufferers and it’ > s not a “One Size Fits All” disorder. > > The only thing that seems to make me anxious or > angry is the SSS stuff, the > rest of my world is very calm and collected. > Then there are some people who don’t mind eating > noises etc at all, yet get > anxious or angry over things I would consider > trivial and silly. > > Maybe everyone has a set level of anxiety and anger > and we channel all of > ours into noises, where others disperse it over many > other different things. > > Oh well, keep soldiering on everyone! > > Neil > Re: > > > > thanks everyone, i feel the same way and i didn't > > know i could > > say " FUCK THEM ALL " on here but it sure feels > > good!!!!!!! pia, i feel > > really bad for you at work, i KNOW what you're > going > > through, i can't > > even listen to anyone BUT ME on the keyboard or > > clicking the mouse > > and as my therapist told me " seriously > > joking " .... " you know you can > > never own a gun, right " ?????? i just smiled at > her. > > there is one > > thing i changed when this got worse and that is my > > anxiety > > medication, the only medication i take. i > switched > > to klonopin maybe > > a year or so ago and maybe just coincidence but > more > === message truncated === Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 4, 2006 Report Share Posted May 4, 2006 I hear you all, and I know that many of you have more than just ONE concern............. My goal, though, is still to address mostly the auditory issues, because I have seen, after ten years, that is you can regain your equilibrium on the sound field, life is simply so much better, and sound pervades every single environment.......... I do think this is really a huge area of medicine, and I know that too many people suffer from ignorant medical providers, family members, and many of you also blame yourselves for your problems, which is so sad for me........to hear that people castigate themselves because in some bio-genetic twist of fate, they end up very sound sensitive. On the screening side, I have been careful to contact people who wish to join, read their comments, limit membership to this space where we can feel safe to share very private feelings and situations. I think that is quite important, and I still support the public place, too, but we need our private room, too. Marsha , MS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 5, 2006 Report Share Posted May 5, 2006 anthro_pop wrote: <<.....On the screening side, I have been careful to contact people who wish to join, read their comments, limit membership to this space where we can feel safe to share very private feelings and situations......I think that is quite important, and I still support the public place, too, but we need our private room, too......Marsha , MS.....>> Hi Marsha, and everyone! Just wanted to let you know that I am in total agreement. I would not share as openly as I have here on this YAHOO site, if it were not for the fact that this is a moderated site filled with others who either understand completely what I go through every waking hour of my existence, or those who do not directly suffer and attempt to cope with this affliction as well. I am 48 years old.....and as a direct result of having this since age 11, I have been categorized AND treated as "difficult", "unreasonable", "uncooperative", "anti-social", "unmanageable", "crazy", "mentally deficient", "odd", "different" -- this list goes on and on and on......and it has been made up by those who love me such as family members, close friends, and co-workers. You can also throw those who do not love me in there as founders of this list as well -- educators, doctors, psychologists, bosses and yes, additional co-workers who were less caring. I have learned to keep this affliction to myself, for the most part.......and search for help on my own. It was just such searching that brought me to this forum -- a safe place to share the manner in which I am affected by this affliction with others who understand. Lo and behold, I never knew there was anyone else on the planet who was dealing with this, let alone understood what it's like to have it!!!! A website is indeed, a good idea as it could offer more organization -- particularly if there were moderated boards where we could post on different subjects. BUT -- we do need our safe and private place to share.....which is VERY different from "getting the word out" to the public. Just my thoughts..... -- Pam Blab-away for as little as 1¢/min. Make PC-to-Phone Calls using Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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