Posted by alexandra_k on September 18, 2013, at 15:45:41
In reply to Re: hypersensitive to noise » Partlycloudy, posted by Phillipa on September 18, 2013, at 9:57:36
> Startle reflex have always had this. Not in response to noise but to anything that is scary too. Like the car almost hitting another. Also noise when don't expect it? Phillipa
yes. i think it is a startle reflex. the bus went under an overbridge the other day and a torrent of water run off hit the windscreen. i was sitting a few seats back from the front but noticed i was the only one to blink / flinch. i think that my threshold is too low - i get triggered by the lightest stimuli. and my response is too intense - it will take my heart rate longer to return to baseline etc.
i've always been a bit touchy... but i swear that things have escalated a lot since i quit smoking. i thought it would pass in time... but i don't think it has passed. only... i can't tell how much of it is due to my environmental change that happened around the same time...
thinking... i had the house to myself... or i had a self contained room out the back of a house (detached) to myself... or i had an office in a quiet hallway... or i lived in a hall of residence with a 'zero tolerance to noise policy'... in all of those places i simply didn't hear people talking or yelling... here... i think i'm going crazy... but then i do have the odd occasion when i can't hear anyone talking. and i feel... happy. my mood lifts. i can think undisturbed. when people go away from where i'm living (or get out the house during the day) so it is empty and people only come calling 'yoo hoo anybody home!' running up and down the hallways maybe 3 times instead of the usual 9 or 10 i'm in heaven.
but that is gone now. and there it is.
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