Getting distressed by loud sounds

[AS.star]

Everytime there's loud noises/sounds I get shortness of breath, unbelievable distress, tics (I don't have TS tho, my old psychologist told me the stress cause them), crying constantly and panic attacks, it's like a mental torture for me.
I don't mean the short ones, they just irritate me, give me a rapid discomfort and/or make me tic, I mean the long period ones like dog barking, child crying or drilling. I hate them.
Do some of you have it too? I'm curious if it's from any mental illness, trauma or some kind of undiagnosed neurodivergent.
I want to change it I can't fucking function like this, I appreciate any clue or opinions on this matter.
Today my step father was drilling and other loud renovation sounds for 5 hours, it was the worst mental torture I experienced I need to know why am I like that I hate it I can't live like that.
You all can share your similar experiences, I'll read all of them, I send you all lots of hugs!

 

[DeusVult]

Yes I used to have this! I believe it's trauma related, kind of not being able to escape a situation, you hate that someone is entering your personal space with the sounds and it feels abusive. That's how it was for me. I got better once I dealt with my trauma through therapy, and left an abusive environment.

You could look into Loop earplugs to soften the sounds.

 

[AS.star]

Yes I used to have this! I believe it's trauma related, kind of not being able to escape a situation, you hate that someone is entering your personal space with the sounds and it feels abusive. That's how it was for me. I got better once I dealt with my trauma through therapy, and left an abusive environment.

You could look into Loop earplugs to soften the sounds.

It could be it, thank you )

 

[Bruce]

@AS.star This is my current life theme. I'm going through this as well. I'm not at your level yet but it's pretty bad and it's getting worse, especially if it keeps happening. In general I'm not bothered by most natural sounds like birds singing, leafs blowing in the wind, the sound of rain drops falling on whatever surface but there are a few exceptions like certain dog barks. I am bothered by many human made sounds. A drilling machine is hell but I also hurt from loud music, thumping and pretty much everything discordant. How do I deal with it? I'm trying to isolate myself. I tried moving to the countryside but it's happening there as well. Now I came back to the city but I will soon move to the edge of it in a quieter neighborhood. When I work with power tools I use special protection headphones which dampen the noise considerably. When at home or when walking on the street I use active noise canceling headphones or earphones. Not earplugs! @DeusVult suggested Loop. I tried them and I consider them complete crap! They reduce the noise with maybe 5 decibels. Good active noise canceling headphones and earphones can reduce the noise with between 20 and 40 decibels. Combined with a music or a background sounds app it can help a lot. I'm using Soundcore Q45 and Soundcore Liberty 4 NC. Reviews and comparisons are on SoundGuys and Rtings. These have decent prices. I heard certain Bose and Sony products are better but they cost too much. Let me know if you need to know more.

edit: I don't know why this is happening. Maybe it's because I have a high attention span, maybe it's because my hearing is very good, maybe it's because things happened to me in the past, maybe it's a combination of those. I don't know if it matters. I only know that things are not getting better and I'm just trying to stay sane until I end my existence.

 

[Kitsuné_]

It could be an undiagnosed neurodivergence, as you say. ADHD and autism can cause this.

It could be that the sound process in ur brain is augmented for any reason (hyperacusia).

For me sounds cause a mild discomfort, getting highly distressed must be really hard to live with . You should identify whats the source of the problem.

 

[Zenna]

Everytime there's loud noises/sounds I get shortness of breath, unbelievable distress, tics (I don't have TS tho, my old psychologist told me the stress cause them), crying constantly and panic attacks, it's like a mental torture for me.
I don't mean the short ones, they just irritate me, give me a rapid discomfort and/or make me tic, I mean the long period ones like dog barking, child crying or drilling. I hate them.
Do some of you have it too? I'm curious if it's from any mental illness, trauma or some kind of undiagnosed neurodivergent.
I want to change it I can't fucking function like this, I appreciate any clue or opinions on this matter.
Today my step father was drilling and other loud renovation sounds for 5 hours, it was the worst mental torture I experienced I need to know why am I like that I hate it I can't live like that.
You all can share your similar experiences, I'll read all of them, I send you all lots of hugs!

I had it in the past with hyperventilating, Panik attacks and dissoziations whitch mostly got triggered by the voices of man and some smells.

Now I only get the dissoziations whitch mostly gets only triggered by strong emotions, stress, bad thoughts and sometimes with out a reason that i can find.


Sadly i cant say how it got better for me, maybe it was just the time that passed or anything else.
I only can say that its always worse when i was in the psychatrie but that is probably because its bad at handeling some topics.

 

[locked*n*loaded]

Hyperacusis or Misophonia. I've got this to a degree. Train horns are exceptionally bad for me.

 

[martyrdom]

I was totally fine with loud noises before a traumatic experience happened to me, now they severely distress me - specific loud noises in particular. But what you have sounds like some type of overstimulation, maybe related to autism or ADHD.

 

[Bruce]

Well this could be because of trauma or it could be because, well, you know, the noises are actually loud and discordant. It's not our fault that humans are dumb and can't or choose to ignore what they hear around them or if they fucked up their hearing.