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Does anyone else have problems with sounds noise. Some days I'm ok and others I just can't seem to handle it i just want to scream.
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And there are days when I can't handle anything that is going on around me. Some sounds just put me to tears.
sounds bother me just about every minute.
I sleep with earplugs.
Part is because of the man upstairs that makes so much noise 24 hours a day.
Part is because just hearing his footsteps walking above me or around me...his opening and shutting doors, etc...just freaks me out.
Sometimes I put on music to sooth me or to drown him and other outside noises out. Of course they are days the soft music is way too much for me.
Driving in traffic..very triggering. Movements are too quick and surround me. Too many people, too many cars. Don't like to be around lots of people.
Grocery stores push me over the edge. Too much noise, too many people, kids crying, overhead announcements. I start to twitch.
I think I am always hypervigilant. Does not ease up at all.
My biggest weakness is triggers and flashbacks.
As a medical assistant, I took a job working at a childrens hospital, not long after the accident.. It was the first time I had been to a major trauma center where they had a hei-pad.
As I was walking up for my interview-- I listened to the sounds of helicopters landing overhead, and stood in silence as tears rolled down my cheeks. It broke my heart, because I knew there was someone up there, who was really hurt.
I have the same reactions still * a year later* when I drive past bad accidents, becasue I start to think about the person in the car-- and who they were. I know that had to be someone's Father, Husband, Son, Grandpaw, Bestfriend. And wonder whos going to deliever the news to the family.
It has lessened with time-- in the beggining it was so bad, if I even drove past a dark colored mercedes, I would start to cry histericly, and go into complete flashbacks.
My best advice for over=ridding these triggers, is when you know they are coming up, or about to occur, to occupy our mind with something else.